Calculate Field in Power Pivot using DAX

powerwill

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  1. 365
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Hello,

Office 365 user here.

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With a Regular Pivot, I will not take an average of the 'Score%', doing so would be incorrect, hence I use a 'Caclulated field' to show the result obtained by dividing 'Marks Obtained/Total Marks'.

I have now moved my data to a Power Query/Data Model, as I want to use Power Pivot Measures, and I understand the 'Calculated Field' will not work there and is greyed out.

I need to replicate this in DAX, so that my PowerPivot - Measure would do exactly this: 'Marks Obtained/Total Marks' for each student.

My Expression in the 'Measures' window looks like this: =AVERAGE(Query1[Marks Obtained]/Query1[Total Marks]) and it throws an error.

"This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result."

Any help is appreciated!
 
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Excel Facts

Can you AutoAverage in Excel?
There is a drop-down next to the AutoSum symbol. Open the drop-down to choose AVERAGE, COUNT, MAX, or MIN
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@smozgur apologies. will keep this in mind.

So I created two seperate measures to SUM the Total Marks & Marks Obtained. Then used the DIVIDE fx in DAX to get the actual score.
 
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