In Spotfire, I have created a cross table with source data.
Now I like freeze first 5 columns in that cross table.
I couldn't succeed so far. Any help would be very much appreciated.
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I'm trying to build a kind of timeline based on a table in Excel. The table has several columns that represent a due date. Column A is considered the key/identifier, Column B is a company name, Columns C through H are the task due dates.
My goal is to hopefully find a way to setup a second type of table that will automatically set the items in order of what key is due when. I've included an img of the table and what I'm hoping the end result would be. I haven't been able to find anything that does this. I was thinking maybe a pivot table but it's not doing what I want.
I'm not even sure if this is possible or not but any help or push in the right direction would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks!!
-Deke
You can easily do this with Power Query. Just load the table, sort on date, and select which columns you want
Longtime answer-seeker, first time question-asker here so I'm open to feedback about how I'm asking as well. I'm relatively new to Excel's PowerPivot but feel like I have a handle on it for the most part.
I am using PowerPivot for Excel 2010. I have data that I only receive weekly totals for and I use the monday of that week as my primary key in the table I call 'WeeklyTracking'. I create a relationship from that to my Date Table so that I can filter/analyze by month, year, etc. I get no error when I make that relationship, it is a one to many ( I checked for duplicates in my WeeklyTracking table), and it is showing as 'active'.
However, when I go to create a pivot table it's not separating the data by my Date Table fields. It simply repeats the total for the column. What my pivot table shows me. Table Relationships
I tired disconnecting all other table relationships, and I even tried converting dates to numeric values and linking those but to no avail. When I choose to make column labels the date within the 'WeeklyTracking' table it separates out by date just fine which leads me to believe it has to do with the relationship. But I did something very similar with data I get monthly and didn't have any problems so I can't figure out what's different.
Any ideas?
EDIT: It's actually not working for my monthly report either, upon closer inspection. But still I dont understand why not--There's a primary key in each table...
UPDATE: Tried creating a ID number using a formula for each week and creating the relationship on that and it didn't work either.
We are using a SASS SSAS driven pilot table where we would like to add a calculated measure using the sum of a column.
We don't know in advance which filters the users will be using, the measure is valid for any of them, so we just tried adding a calc measure on the excel file such as
[Measures].[Sales]/sum(axis(1),[Measures].[Sales])
But it doesn't seem to work. So just to test we started with a plain
sum(axis(1),[Measures].[Sales])
which gives some astonishing result.
We cannot figure out what the result is adding up! Applying some filters and a detailed row, we get exactly twice the expected value (!!??).
Applying exactly the same filters and filtering also the rows, we get a value that we are not able to guess where it comes from.
Any idea about what MDX should we use?
Edited to clarify: We want to add the calculated measure on an Excel pivot table, not on the SSAS olap cube definition.
I obviously was having a bad day. One cannot think excel-like to solve an mdx issue.
A simple
([MyDim].[MyHierarchy].currentmember.parent,[Measures].[Sales])
is the right syntax to use in our calculus as the "parent total".
Thks
Due to performance issues I need to remove a few distinct counts on my DAX. However, I have a particular scenario and I can't figure out how to do it.
As example, let's say one or more restaurants can be hired at one or more feasts and prepare one or more menus (see data below).
I want a PowerPivot table that shows in how many feasts each restaurant was present (see table below). I achieved this by using distinctcount.
Why not precalculating this on Power Query? The real data I have is a bit more complex (more ID columns) and in order to be able to pivot the data I would have to calculate thousands of possible combinations.
I tried adding to my model a Feast dimensional table (on the example this would only be 1 column of 2 rows). I was hoping to use that relationship to be able to make a straight count, but I haven't been able to come up with the right DAX to do so.
You could use COUNTROWS() combined with VALUES().
Specifically, COUNTROWS() will give you the count of rows in a table. That means COUNTROWS is expecting a table is input. Here's the magic part: VALUES() will return a table as results, and the table it returns are the distinct values in the table/column that you provide as the argument for VALUES().
I'm not sure if I'm explaining it well, so for the sample data you provided, the measure would look like this (assuming the table is named Table1):
Unique Feasts:=COUNTROWS(VALUES('Table1'[Feast Id]))
You can then create a pivot table from Powerpivot, and drag Restaurant Id into Rows, and drag the measure above into Values. Same result as DISTINCTCOUNT, but with less performance overhead (I think).
I am pretty new on creating POWERPIVOT tables. I have searched for a bit of time now to resolve this problem but I have been unsuccessful so far. Here is my problem. As you can see below, I have created a POWERPIVOT table in Excel 2013 that is composed of two FACT tables, which are based on: 1) a sheet where the clients can insert initial budget entries; and, 2) another sheet where the clients can insert the post-initial budget entries. Also, a DIMENSION table has been added to the combination in order to add the following relationships:
Based on these relationships, I have clicked on Insert a PivotTable to create the following POWERPIVOT table that will be used to display the Initial Budget and Adjustments entries for analysis purposes. However, this table does not give me the total of both columns. I have thought that a calculated field would make it happen but this is where I am stucked as nothing let me sum the two columns like I was used to do with regular pivot tables in Excel 2007. The calculation of the two columns would logically equal the Current Budget as shown attached.
Thank you for your help on this.
With Power Pivot you don't use the calculated field feature of pivot table.
You have to put a measure in your data Modell, which you can then add in the value part of the PT. Relationships alone are not enough.
currentBudget := CALCULATE (
SUM ( fInitialBudget[Initial Budget] ) + SUM ( fAdjustement[Adjustements] )
)
if you are new with Power Pivot, I warmly recommend the book of Rob Collie "DAX Formulas for Power Pivot". I got a very good introduction of the PP capability with it. The 2nd Edition is on the way.