DAX | The VALUES function exercise | Allow a user to choose the units when displaying film finances

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Software ==> DAX  (28 exercises)
Version ==>
Topic ==> The VALUES function  (4 exercises)
Level ==> Harder than average
Subject ==> Power BI training
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Open the Power BI file in the above folder - you should see this table:

Film finances

Average box office takings, budget and profit by film certificate.

Use the following menu option to import the Units worksheet from the above folder:

Get data from Excel

Choose to import data from Excel.

 

Create a slicer allowing you to choose which unit you want to use:

Slicer by unit

A basic slicer - feel free to pimp yours, should you so wish.

 

Use the HASONEVALUE function (among others!) to create 3 measures showing the average box office takings, budget and profit for the unit chosen:

Currency data

Here we've chosen $m as our unit, so all of the figures are divided by 1000000.  If you don't choose a unit in your slicer your measures should all return blank, since you don't know what divisor to use.

Still got time?  Add a measure called Title (and a card to display it) to show different titles according to whether or not you have chosen a unit:

Unit chosen No unit chosen
Unit chosen No unit chosen

Save this file as Whew, then close it down. 

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