Line chart points from columns

[crizbe]

I have the following SharePoint lists:

Plans:

Plan	Curve	Description
Plan001	Curve001
Plan002	Curve002

Curves:

Curve	ValueA	MeasureA	ValueB	MeasureB
Curve001	10	100	50	100
Curve002	20	30	40	80

A User can select a Plan. When it gets selected, I want to draw a lina chart of the corresponding curve, where the datapoints consist of Value (X-Axis) and Measure (Y-Axis).

I managed to get all the values with either measure column or calculation column. But I am not able to draw the chart. I think it is because each field in curve is also a column.

The chart works perfectly when I create a table like this from hand:

Value	Measure
10	100
50	100

Is there any way to create such a table automatically when a Plan gets selected? Or do you know any other way how I could achieve this?

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Here is one possible approach

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tKks1MDBU0lEyNAATINIUxozVgSsxAgoZgcSNQYQJiLAAKogFAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Curve = _t, ValueA = _t, MeasureA = _t, ValueB = _t, MeasureB = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Curve", type text}, {"ValueA", Int64.Type}, {"MeasureA", Int64.Type}, {"ValueB", Int64.Type}, {"MeasureB", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "List", each {{[ValueA],[MeasureA]},{[ValueB],[MeasureB]}}),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Curve", "List"}),
    #"Expanded List" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "List"),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Expanded List", {"List", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), "#(tab)"), type text}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Extracted Values", "List", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(tab)", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"x", "y"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"x", Int64.Type}, {"y", Int64.Type}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"

[lbendlin]

Yes, usually you would need to unpivot your Curves table  - in this case in pairs.

What's the importance of "A" and "B" - does that play any role later?

[crizbe]

Thanks, yes A and B are the X and Y Values of each point in the chart

[v-rzhou-msft]

Hi @crizbe ,

I agree with lbendlin's reply. Due to we cannot see calculated column or measure created by Dax in Power Query Editor, firstly, you need to calcualte MeasureA and MeasureB by M code in Power Query Editor. Then you can follow  lbendlin's step to unpivot your table. 

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Here is one possible approach

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tKks1MDBU0lEyNAATINIUxozVgSsxAgoZgcSNQYQJiLAAKogFAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Curve = _t, ValueA = _t, MeasureA = _t, ValueB = _t, MeasureB = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Curve", type text}, {"ValueA", Int64.Type}, {"MeasureA", Int64.Type}, {"ValueB", Int64.Type}, {"MeasureB", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "List", each {{[ValueA],[MeasureA]},{[ValueB],[MeasureB]}}),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Curve", "List"}),
    #"Expanded List" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "List"),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Expanded List", {"List", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), "#(tab)"), type text}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Extracted Values", "List", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(tab)", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"x", "y"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"x", Int64.Type}, {"y", Int64.Type}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"

[crizbe]

Thank you very much. It worked like a charm! I have one slight issue now. How am I able to filter the values now based on selectedValues?

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @crizbe ,

I think you can create a relationship between Plan table and Curve table by [Curve] column.

For reference: Create and manage relationships in Power BI Desktop

Then you can create a slicer by [Plan] column from Plan table. 

By default:

Select Plan001:

Select Plan002:

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[crizbe]

Thank you so much! It works as expected now.