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Software ==>	DAX (59 exercises)
Topic ==>	The VALUES function (7 exercises)
Level ==>	Harder than average
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Add a slicer for units, and adjust table to divide film figures by unit chosen

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file.

Open the Power BI file in the above folder - you should see this table:

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

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

Choose to import data from Excel.

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

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:

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: