I'm using Excel 2010 have developed a pivot table for some financial modeling. The model includes sales and expenses for shared services teams and sales teams. I'm trying to calculate a EBIT margin for the total company using a Calculated Item. When I do this, I'm getting a DIV/0 error.
My formula is very straight forward:
(Sales - Expense) / Sales
I believe I'm getting the error because the shared services teams do not have sales, thus the Div/0 error.
Is there a way to force the formula to perform the calculation on an aggregate basis and thus avoid the error.
use the iferror-function
= IFERROR((Sales - Expense) / Sales, 0)
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I am trying to create forecast for next 6 month sales. I am using visual analytics for my forecast.
It is showing me the forecast for Next 6 months.
I don't have employees that are consistent in the data. Like, I am having 28 agents/ employees working in January month and 5 employees working in June month. Here, the employees are not constant in the data. therefore, the above approached method is not the best way for forecast for future months.
How can I make forecast for next n months using measures or columns in Power BI for these types of Inconsistent Hiring and Firing of employees ?
Currently i had a project using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Service. I found a problem regarding filtering data with excel timeline.
Here is my date dimension screenshot:
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I had a cube with 2 measures, Sales Quantity (measures) and Sales Quantity Last Year (calculation). Here is MDX expression for Sales Quantity Last Year calculation:
( ParallelPeriod([Date].[YM].[Calendar Year],1,[Date].[YM].CurrentMember),[Measures].[Sales Quantity In 1000] )
After deploying the project to my local server, the data can be shown perfectly using excel 2013:
Pic: Data in Excel without filter
The problem start when i want to filter the data using excel timeline. When i filter only '2016', my calculation measure is no longer working. You can see the data in 'Sales Quantity in 1000 LY' column is blank. It looks like that i cant see the data outside current filter (2016). Pic: Filtered using timeline filter
But when i use slicer, the data can be shown normally Pic:Filtered using Slicer
Did i make a mistake in building date dimension? Or i need to fix the MDX calculation query? Because when i test this case in Microsoft AdventureWorksDW2014 with the same date hierarchy and the same calculation, all is going well.
Your parallel period calculation looks correct assuming [Date].[YM] is your date hierarchy. I am guessing that your date dimension is off somehow.
Make sure that:
it has a hierarchy created, and the hierarchy is what you are referencing in the parallel period calculation. Here is an example, you could have more or less attributes in the hierarchy obviously.
Your attribute relationships are defined correctly.
Key columns on the attributes in the hierarchy are correct. In the example above, you would just make year the key for the year column, but then for quarter it would be a collection of the year and quarter column. For period, key columns would be year, quarter, period. For week, key columns would be year, quarter, period, week. Date would just use the date column since date is the key.
4.Make sure that the date key attribute is using a date field for it's value column, as a time slicer needs this.
define time intelligence on your date dimension. Right click on the date dimension on the solution explorer and choose add business intelligence, then on choose enhancement screen pick define dimension intelligence. Then set the attribute type for each dimension attribute. Here is how it would be for our example.
Hopefully one of these does it for you.
I am new to PowerPivot within Excel, but am familiar with SQL.
I import a table from my SQL server into PowerPivot, containing the results of some surveys; the columns are: City, State, Population, avg income, avg income x population.
I need to create a Pivot Table showing the weighted average income by State.
If the source of the data were an Excel sheet, I'd add a calculated field to the pivot table, calculating [avg income x population] / [Population].
I cannot seem to that in my case, since the source is a PowerPivot data source.
Suggestions?
I understand I can add calculated fields and measures to the PowerPivot table, but that's not really what I am after.
I am sure it's because my google skills are subpar, but I have also spent lots of time searching for solutions, to no avail.
E.g. these discussions show how to add a field to the powerpivot source, but it's not clear to me how you add a calculated field to a Pivot table which reads from PowerPivot.
PowerPivot formula for row wise weighted average
DAX - 2 phased weighted average with 2 different weight measures
I am having issues translating the following formula to a pivot table; either through a regular pivot table, or through DAX and powerpivot.
=SUMPRODUCT((C$2:C$11)*(D$2:D$11)*(A$2:A$11=A2)*(B$2:B$11=B2))/SUMIFS(D$2:D$11,A$2:A$11,A2,B$2:B$11,B2)
The background is, I have a number of products that appear on an e-commerce site, and I need to find out their price per day. However, these prices change daily, based on things like promo codes, visitor location etc. Therefore, I need their weighted price based on the number of visitors that saw a particular price.
Can anyone help with this translation, or alternatively, offer a better way to approach this problem?
PS- I need it in a pivot table due to the volume of data. At 250,000 rows, standard Excel cannot handle this formula.
The following is in Excel 2010 sans Powerpivot. However, the general approach should work:
Explanation:
I added a column that multiplies the Prices and Visits. The pivot table uses Dates, then Product SKU as the row labels. Then I added a calculated field that divides the Price*Visits by the Visits.
I'm trying to get the average number of "on time shipment" based on items rolled up to "ship numbers" and then by "order number". I have one order number in this scenario that is shipped via multiple shipments. It seems to me that after rolling it up via PowerPivot and then creating a pivot table, it's calculating the average based on the total lines of the "order number" instead the pivot.
PowerPivot Data:
Pivot based on data above:
How can I get the average number based on the pivot table rather than the PowerPivot total data of the order number? I'm probably not making any sense, but hopefully the images below explain it better. As you can see, when you roll up the items by ship number then by order number, you'll see that the actual average is 0.6 but the pivot is showing 0.5.
Help!
Technically speaking, the average is correct - if you look at the source data, for some reason all rows are duplicated and if you do regular average calculation, it's actually 0.5.
What you are looking for is calculating average for distinct values, which can be done easily with AVERAGEX function.
I have copied your table and created those 2 Calculated Fields (in Excel 2010, it's Measures):
Average on Time:
=AVERAGE(Table1[On Time])
Average on Time (UNIQUE)
=AVERAGEX(VALUES(Table1[Ship Number]), [Average on Time])
Using AverageX with VALUES() function makes it easier to calculate any expression ONLY for unique values.
If you then put both measures on PivotTable, you should get this:
First column is same as yours (using "regular" AVERAGE function). The second one shows the average calculated over distinct (unique) values of Ship Numbers.
Hope this helps.
PS: This great article by Kasper de Jonge helped me quite a bit with similar scenarios.