Power BI Time-based drill downs powered by Azure Data Warehouse

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I have designed a simple Azure Data Warehouse where I want to track stock of my products on a periodic basis. Moreover, I want to have the ability to see that data grouped by month, weeks, days and hours with the ability to drill down from top to bottom. I have defined 3 dimensions:

DimDate
DimTime 
DimProduct

I have also defined a Fact table to track product stocks:

FactStocks
- DateKey (20160510, 20160511, etc)
- TimeKey (0..23)
- ProductKey (Product1, Product2)
- StockValue (number, 1..9999)

My fact sample data is below:

20160510 20 Product1 100
20160510 20 Product2 30
20160510 21 Product1 110
20160510 21 Product2 35
20160510 22 Product1 112
20160510 22 Product2 28
20160510 23 Product1 120
20160510 23 Product2 31
20160511 00 Product1 150
20160511 00 Product2 29
20160511 01 Product1 95
20160511 01 Product2 40

What I need is a chart of product availability over time with ability to check total (where x axis represents hours), as well as ability to filter by specific product:

Total - 130, 145, 140, 151, 179, 135
Product1 - 100, 110, 112, 120, 150, 95;
Product2 - 30, 35, 28, 31, 29, 40;

x-> 20,21,22,23,00,01

Moreover I need an ability to drill up and browse average availability by days and products (where x axis represents days, weeks, month, years available via the DimDate table):

Total - 141.5, 157
Product1 - 110.5, 122.5
Product2 - 31, 34.5

x-> 20160510, 20160511

It seems that Power BI is unable to make that group by date thing, because it's trying to use an aggregate function to get the daily value and there is no ability to specify the average function which will take into account products (with grouping by product). The aggregating function just doesn't work here, Power BI is trying to sum all values across all products for a given day and get the average (e.g. for 20160511):

150+29+95+40 / 4 = 78.5

When what I need is the following:

(150+29) + (95+40) / 2 = 157

I just want to make it interactive with an ability to chose a product and easily drill up and down. Please advise how I should modify my Warehouse structure to support my scenario.

Oct 29, 2018 in Power BI by Upasana
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I don't really think you need to change the structure. If it were me, I'd have created a New Measure on your FactStocks table (using Power BI Desktop), to calculate Availability as you require it using DAX functions.

I'm guessing a bit as you haven't really put out your requirement besides 1 example, but it would probably look something like this:

Availability = SUM([StockValue])/DISTINCTCOUNT([ProductKey])
answered Oct 29, 2018 by Shubham
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