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Measures Use Other Measures

Part of the Power BI Basics section of Coddy's Power BI journey. Lesson 13 of 28.

Use a measure inside another by its name in square brackets.

Units per Line = DIVIDE([Total Units], [Order Lines])

A column has its table, Sales[Quantity]; a measure only its name, [Total Units].

Change a measure once and every measure built on it follows.

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You wrote Units per Line with SUM and COUNTROWS. The model now has Total Units and Order Lines: write Units per Line again from those two measures. It is checked by category.

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