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Understand explicit vs. implicit measures - Power BI Tutorial
From the course: Power BI Data Modeling with DAX
Understand explicit vs. implicit measures
- [Instructor] Let me show you another alternative to the measure that we created called Total Sales. I'm going to recreate this visualization. I'm going to start by choosing Manufacturer. There it is. And scroll down and then what I want to do is I'm going to simply choose Sales Amount and I'm going to drag and drop it in here. And if you notice this looks amazingly like Total Sales. I have the same Value; a few more decimal places. And since some recent changes to Power BI, I can even rename this. I can rename this Sales Amount so it says Total Sales and it will look just like this. I can give this a little bit more space. But this renaming, like any other formatting I do is actually for this instance of Total Sales, formerly the Summarization of Sales Amount, in this particular visualization. Watch what happens. I'm going to remove this. Sales Amount isn't here anymore. And I select to put it back. It's once…
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