Using a simple division I'm trying to show a A / B give C% in a Powerpivot table.

My Dax formula can do this no problem, but when I add to my Power pivot it sums the Client %.

Now, if I wasn't using the DataModel I would use a simple 'Calculated field' from the Powerpivot menu but it's greyed out.

Can anyone advise how best to do this using the Data Model?

Thanks.

I am running 64bit powerpivot on Excel 2010 and my workbook has suddenly started throwing these errors on opening. Even if I load old workbooks that were fine months ago i get the same.  If I try to sort a pivot table column I get the whole OLAP cube recalculating "OLAP query" running" or if I try to add any existing measure etc. Taking 30 minute for any change I make. As this problem exists even for old books I'm assuming it a structural not a workbook issue.  

I have uninstalled and reinstalled powerpivot .  I saw somewhere to check the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSOLAP\CurVer registry key. mine says MSOLAP.5

I dont know much about structural things os can anyone point me in the right dirction as the whole thing is just unworkable now.

Thanks

mIke

Dear all,

I want to create a measure to calculate many key figures that are ratios of aggregations of values (normally just sums).

As performance matters significantly, I add two calculated columns per key figure to a table (T).

To give an example let us say I want to calculate the ROCE. So I add ROCE_numerator and ROCE_denumerator to table T. 

This way my measure for ROCE would look like this:

ROCE:=
(CALCULATE
(
     SUM(VALUES[AMOUNT]));
     T[ROCE_numerator] = "positive"

)

-

CALCULATE

(

       SUM(VALUES[AMOUNT]));

       T[ROCE_numerator] = "negative"

)   

)/

)-

CALCULATE

( 

      SUM(VALUES[AMOUNT]));

     T[ROCE_denumerator] = "negative")

)

If I could find a way to convert text into a column name, I could easily make a measure that calculates all key figures by changing the column names from ROCE_numerator to any other numerator. (Moreover I assume making extensive use of IF clauses would hinder performance.)

Does anyone have an idea how this could be achieved? Any ideas are very welcome! As this solution is of course work in progress I would also love to hear suggestions if someone has a good solution to this kind of exercise.

Best regards and a nice weekend!

Clemens 

Hi everybody!

Please help me to solve issue with last year sales calculation. I have 'Fact' table with sales for every period in it and related table 'Time' with 1, 2, 3 'PeriodID' column for string MAT 2011, MAT 2012, MAT 2013. What I want to see looks like this table:

I saw a solution in another topic here. In my case code turned into such expression:

=CALCULATE ( SUM(Fact[Sales]); FILTER (ALL ('Time'); 'Time'[PeriodID] = MAX(Time[PeriodID]) - 1))

But the issue is in receiving the pivot table like below. I saw just MAT 2012 column filled with MAT 2012 sales instead of 2011. Besides this MAT 2013 in pivot table is empty completely.

What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I tried to sort months in chronological order using MONTH function but it doesn't work.

First I create a calculate column with MOUNTH function, sort it and then sort my data column by new calculate column. Colimna 'miesiąc' is calculated using TIME column.

What I'm doing wrong? I would like to have year and months in chronological order.

Thanks for help.

Hi there

I am using DAX to calculate the count of instances in a filtered table

e.g.

=CALCULATE( COUNT(Table[Tariff] ,
        FILTER( Table , Table[Tariff] > 0 )
           )

This part of the code works fine. My trouble arises when I am trying to filter the table that I have already filtered:

=CALCULATE( COUNT(Table[Tariff] ,
        FILTER ( FILTER( Table , Table[Tariff] > 0 ) , Table[Tariff] = MIN(Table[Tariff]) )
           )

In the above calculation, I want to 

1. Filter out the tariffs that are greater than zero [this bit works fine]; and then

2. Take that table filtered from 1. above and further filter that by extracting only those tariffs that are equal to the minimum in that data table [this part isn't working].

Instead of doing what I need it to, this formula is treating the outer FILTER in the same manner that it would be treated if I had only one filter. Thus, as zero is the minimum in the unfiltered data set it is only returning all the zero tariffs - even through I filtered these out already.

If anyone can please assist, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Andrew

Dear All

My issue is disappearing powerpivot ad-in every time I open excel file

I found several solutions but non of them works:

1) Check whether the add-in is disabled, you can find that from file->options-->addins-->Manage Disabled Items and click Go. If you find PowerPivot for Excel is disabled enable it

2) Check whether the add-in is unloaded, you can find that from file-->options>addins->Manage COM addins and click Go. If PowerPivot for Excel is unchecked, check it again.

3) Make sure your Excel Version is compatible with PowerPivot.

4) If you still have problem, try the below steps which should give you error

1) Open My Computer Properties
2) Click on Advanced Tab
3) Click on the Environmental Variable
4) Click on New User Variable
5) Add VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS with value 0 press OK
6) Repair PowerPivot For Excel from add/remove
program
7) Open Excel again, it will prompt an error message.

5) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tool for office runtime (x64) install

6) Latest Powerpivot version Installed

My system details:

- Win 7 Professional 64bit

- Microsoft Excel 2010 32 bit

- Powerpivot version: In Powerpivot settings there is 11.0.3000.1 but I am sure I download and Install the latest

11.0.3129.0

Previously mentioned point 2) is a temporary solution. PowerPivot add-in opens but after the file closed it disappear and this action need to be repeated every time when a file is opening.

The problem appeared probably after I change regional settings:

START ->Control Panel -> Clock, Language, and Region -> Region and Language -> Formats -> Additional settings - >Numbers

I thought there could be also compatibility issue between 64 Win 7 and 32 bit excel, but before this regional setting was changed poverpivot had been working well.

Regional setting looks like this: Can this affect on Powerpivot action?

I have also Powerquery installed and it working well, but Powerpivot doesn't.

What can cause those issue?

Hello

Scenario:

I have some servers with mysql 2012 with the same db.

I created the reports with the connection the server and function worked fine.

after i copied the excel file to another server, i tried to change the connection.

First i changed the "PowerPivot Data Connection" and he sayed that connecntion is fine but on klick "refresh" the message "We couldn’t refresh the connection. Please go to existing connections and verify they connect to the file or server." was shown.

Then i tried to refresh with the "Tabe proberties". On klick "Refresh Preview" he shows me the data but after klicking save the error Message "OLE DB or ODBC error: Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done...    The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed." wa comming.

also went throgh the blogs but it did not help

Can someone please help or have some advise for me?

Regards

Hi,

I need to creative a cumulative total measure (or calculated column) which accumulates my revenue sales for each day in a month, but resets each month.

I've created an example below:

The dates are from a linked date table and are based on a fiscal year.  When the months are collapsed the months can either accumulate or stay fixed to the max for the month, that does not affect me.

I have tried various attempts using the guides below and I'm sure the answer is there but I can't get the filtering right.

I can get it to work but accumulate since the start of my data but this is not what I need.

http://www.daxpatterns.com/cumulative-total/
http://javierguillen.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/running-total-techniques-in-dax/

Thanks.

Hi

I have Excel 2013 and have a situation where values that are available in Powerpivot are simply not displaying in a pivot table for some reason. I have refreshed, dropped and re-added the field and I can't get them to display.

Below is a screenshot.

Paul

We have a situation where we would like a slicer to run against a column of comma separated values which we have cracked (in this example the Numbers values).

If ( Hasonevalue(Table1[Numbers] ),
          Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table2[Numbers], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table2, SEARCH(Table2[Numbers],Values(Table1[Numbers]),1,0) > 0 )
          )
    )

The problem is that we have three such columns that we would like to search in tandem, in the example this is Numbers, Names and Towns. And I have similar blocks of code to the above for those two columns.

If ( Hasonevalue(Table1[Names] ),
          Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table3[Names], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table3, SEARCH(Table3[Names],Values(Table1[Names]),1,0) > 0 )
          )

    )

If ( Hasonevalue(Table1[Towns] ),
          Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table4[Towns], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table4, SEARCH(Table4[Towns],Values(Table1[Towns]),1,0) > 0 )
          )

    )

When I add any one of the calculated fields to the pivot table they work perfectly, but if I add more than one then they work as an OR not as an AND. As an example if I choose One, Bob and Croydon I get three rows returned i.e. row one because I choose One, row two because I choose Bob and row three because I choose Croydon. Ideally in this case I wouldn't get anything because no single rows contains all those values.

I have tried adding a combo calculated field but I can't get the syntax right.

If (  Hasonevalue(Table1[Numbers] ) &&
 Hasonevalue(Table1[Names] ) &&
 Hasonevalue(Table1[Towns] ),
          Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table2[Numbers], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table2, SEARCH(Table2[Numbers],Values(Table1[Numbers]),1,0) > 0 )
          )
 &&
 Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table3[Names], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table3, SEARCH(Table3[Names],Values(Table1[Names]),1,0) > 0 )
          )
 &&
 Calculate (
            LASTNONBLANK (Table4[Towns], 1 ),
            Filter ( Table4, SEARCH(Table4[Towns],Values(Table1[Towns]),1,0) > 0 )
          )
    )

Is someone able to either correct what I have got, suggest a way to amend my approach or come up with something completely different?

Thanks

Paul

Hi all,

I'm struggling with relationships in PowerPivot, I've been researching this problem for a few days, found plenty of proposed solutions, but none of them work.

Firstly, I'm working with a snippet of data from a larger data set to try and sort out the problems. The spreadsheet has two tables, both of which were taken from a single table. Each table contains multiple columns that contain unique values (ID, AWG ID, TITLE), and they also contain some other data.

Here is a pivot table showing the output I'm getting when I attempt to create a relationship between the two tables on the ID column (not shown). Each "AWG ID" should have exactly one "Next Milestone", but instead it's showing EVERY "Next Milestone" for EVERY "AWG ID".

Here is the first table. Contains the unique fields (ID, AWG ID and TITLE), and some other fields.

Here is the second table, contains the same unique fields, and other different fields (Next Milestone)

(see first image in reply below)

The relationship looks like this:

(see second image in reply below)

I'm quite sure i'm defining this relationship correctly, I've tried the same process with a demonstration dataset I found on the net and the relationships work as I would expect, so I'm assuming there's a problem with my data, or unique keys.

I've tried changing the direction of the relationship, changing the relationship column value format (Integer value fields, text value fields etc).

I've also tried using the RELATED() function to get the value, and this works fine, but it's not a suitable solution to my problem I MUST be able to define the relationships, then use pivot tables to explore the related data.

The closest problem I've found so far was discussed in this thread but the solution doesn't appear to have been documented.

Our IT team have done a pretty thorough job of locking down file sharing, so I'm struggling to upload the sample file so if I figure out a way, I'll update it here.

Thanks in advance.

I have installed the latest version of Powerpivot on several of our workstations.  Some of them are running the application just fine and some of them are getting an intermittent error message when trying to launch the PowerPivot Window.

We are running Windows 7 ENT 32bit with Office 2010 32bit

The error message given is : An operation that uses the database driver could not be completed.   If the driver is a Microsoft driver, make sure the drvier file isn't damaged, and if it is, reinstall the driver by re-installing Microsoft Query.  

You can then try again and it will work.

In fact the majority of the time this error message won't appear.

The application has been removed and reinstalled.

When I checked event viewer i'm finding this error which I think is related

The description for Event ID 1 from source MSOLAP$LocalCube cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

Hi

I'm using powerpivot in Excel and need a list of cities and to every city, the top representative with his turnover in this city.

The plain data are

City    Representative   Product   Turnover

CityA  Meier                WatchA    1000
CityA  Meier                WatchB      500
CityA  Müller                WatchA      200
CityB  Müller               WatchA    300

So, result should be

CityA   Meier        1500
CityB   Müller        300

How can I solve this with calculated Column?

Best regards

Christoph

Can PowerPivot for SharePoint 2013 be installed on a Windows Server 2012 Core OS with SQL Server 2014 Core? I know SSAS can be installed on Windows Server Core, but I can't find anything for PowerPivot for SP2013.

Thanks,
Tim

hi

I recently change excel 2013 preview to excel profesional 2013 but PowerPivot is missing, what do I have to do, It`s not in the COM add-ins list, I tried too many ways, somebody can help me.

I am building a reporting system of production profiles for a set of assets. The key data structure is as follows:

Version  Field               Action    Profile          Date          Production     RiskCategory

v1          Field1         Action00    00_Low      31/1/2014        5000         0

v1           Field1         Action00    00_Low     28/2/2014         4980        0

v1           Field1         Action00    00_Low     31/3/2014          4950       0

v1           Field1        Action00      00_Base     31/1/2014        5300       1

..

v1           Field1        Action00      00_High     31/1/2014         5600       2

..

v1           Field1        Action01      01_Low     31/1/2014        8000         0

...

 v2           Field1         Action00    00_Low    31/1/2014          2000         0

 ...

Ie. the data consists of production profiles. Each [Version] has many [Field]s who in turn have many [Action]s who in turn have a High, Base, Low [Profile]s who in turn have a [Production] for each [Date].

Each profile has a monthly entry from 2014 to 2034. There are typically 10 Actions per field, and maybe 4 fields per version. So number of rows per version is: 12months*30years*3profilesperaction*10actions*4fields = 43200. Number of versions per data set is not decided yet, however as time goes by there will be a steady increase in nr of versions... it all depends on the speed and practicality.

Related tables:A related table (on Version and Profile) adds [Risk Category] to the [Profile] (and other attributes not relevant here. There is also another related table on [Version] [Field] [Date] not relevant here.

Problem Description: I use PowerPivot to tie 3 tables togetether via composite keys (calculated column = [Version]&[Profile] etc). So I dont have to repeat [RiskCategory] for each date in the profile table and makes QCing inputs far easier. The purpose of the database is to take the production profiles and slice them in different ways to satisfy different input systems.

The most challenging is that I need to calculate the incremental contribution from the Base and High  [Profiles] in each action.

Generate a calculated column that for each Date in each Action calculates:

if [RiskCategory] (thisrow) = 1, then [Production])

If [RiskCategory] (thisrow) = 2, then [Production] (where [RiskCategory]=2)  - 

                                           [Production] (where[RiskCategory]=1)

If [RiskCategory] (thisrow) = 3, then [Production] (where [RiskCategory]=3)  - 

                                           [Production] (where[RiskCategory]=2)

My solution below is a Calculated Column that uses Calculate Allexcept and Earlier to remember the row context. However, the calculation is a little slow: 5 sec maybe - which will get worse as I add more versions and possibly more fields with more actions. and I would like to see if I can speed it up:

=if( Profile[RiskCategory]>1,

Calculate(SUM(Profile[Production]), Allexcept(Profile,Profile[Date],Profile[Version],Profile[Action]), Profile[RiskCategory] = Earlier(Profile[RiskCategory]))-
Calculate(SUM(Profile[Production]), Allexcept(Profile,Profile[Date],Profile[Version],Profile[Action]), Profile[RiskCategory] = Earlier(Profile[RiskCategory])-1)

,Profile[Production])

Any suggestions?

Hope this is clear.

Thanks

Lars

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I created a nice PowerView report, in which I use a list of Countries to filter 4 charts in the report. The Country attribute is added to the View filter, and is displayed as tiles on top of the powerview report.

What I would like to achieve is to have one tile, for example "World", or "Total", which will make the charts display the totals for all countries.

The source of my data is a combination of Active Directory data and a few reference lists created directly in Excel. This means I do not have a connection to a relational database, and I would like to keep it this way.

Half Scheidl