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Better Aggregation Handling in Dimension Tables in Power BI Desktop

This is a brief post to ask you all for your help in getting a Power BI Desktop change through.  Please give me 3 mins of your time.

Note below the default aggregation behaviour of all these columns in the Calendar table is "SUM". No one wants to SUM a Year or Month Number column.  Yes, sometimes you do want to sum a column in a dimension table but it is the exception, not the rule.

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If you agree, please click the link below and vote to have the default behaviour changed.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/37174840-better-handle-column-typ...



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
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LivioLanzo
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Great idea

It's something I've always found very annoying


 


 


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