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A quiet month, after the frenetic activity of the July update, sees lots of small changes to matrices, tables and charts, but no single big update.
- Updates to Power BI Desktop for August 2017
- Parameters for What-If Analysis
- Live Connection to Power BI Service Data Sources
- Multiple Values for a Matrix can now Appear as Row Headers
- Conditional Formatting of Font Colour
- Customising Matrix Subtotals (this blog)
- More Improvement to Line Charts
- New Scatter Chart Insights
For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop in the last few months, see this blog. Our two-day Power BI Desktop course always uses the latest version of the software.
Posted by Andy Brown on 14 August 2017
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Customising Matrix Subtotals
This small change lets you position and display subtotals more exactly, but to reproduce it you first have to have a matrix containing them.
Creating an Example Matrix
Suppose you create a matrix like this, which displays total sales by environment and family for a company selling toys:
Although there are two row titles, only one will display by default.
To display the second row title, click on the symbol shown below:
Click as shown to show both row titles together.
The resulting matrix shows subtotals by default:
You can now see subtotals!
Changing the Display of Subtotals
Now we've got some subtotals, you can change how they display:
You can choose to display subtotals at the bottom of each section (the default) or the top.
Subtotals at the top show up alongside the row title:
You can see the total sales for each environment next to the name.
You can also choose for which fields to display subtotals:
Set the Per row level property to choose for which fields to display subtotals (here for both the EnvironmentName and the FamilyName fields). For a matrix with only two row or two column fields, you won't see much difference.
You can do a similar thing to column subtotals - the only difference is that the property above is called Per column level, not Per row level.
- Updates to Power BI Desktop for August 2017
- Parameters for What-If Analysis
- Live Connection to Power BI Service Data Sources
- Multiple Values for a Matrix can now Appear as Row Headers
- Conditional Formatting of Font Colour
- Customising Matrix Subtotals (this blog)
- More Improvement to Line Charts
- New Scatter Chart Insights