Power BI: Add Grand Total Row in the bar visual

Amit Chandak
3 min readJul 5, 2022

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Power BI — Visual with Grand Total

Objective: Want to show grand total in Bar visual

To achieve this, I do not want to add additional rows to my fact table. So I decided to use the additional dimension table approach. The one, I used for the single slicer with all in the video below

Power BI Single select with All

My model has a Sales fact joined to dimensions Item, Geography, Date, and Customer.

Power BI Data Model

We have a measure [NET] in the schema

net = [Gross] -[Discount]
Gross = Sum(Sales[Gross Sales Amount])
Discount= Sum(Sales[Discount Amount])

In this example I wanted to show all when I display data by Brand, so created a new table

Brand All = Union(  SUMMARIZE('Item','Item'[Brand], "All Brand", max('Item'[Brand])) ,
SUMMARIZE('Item','Item'[Brand], "All Brand", "All")
)

There are two columns, Brand and All Brand. “All brand” column has two entries for each brand; one with the name and another with All. Example below

Join this new table with the Item table. Single directional, filter Item

Visual with Item Brand

Visual with Brand All

In the second visual I am using Net, So I am getting a sum total. Can I get Avg total like the one given below? Comment and tell me the formula of the measure: Net with Avg GT

You can also watch a video on the same topic

Power Bi Show Grand Total Row in Visual

You can use the single select file from git to build this example.

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Amit Chandak
Amit Chandak

Written by Amit Chandak

Amit has 20+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science. He is Chief Analytics Officer at Kanerika & Power BI community Super User

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