Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, do the following:

  1. Open Power BI Desktop.
  2. Use an Enter Data query to create a table called R02_Table with the following data:

Date

Customer

3/1/2015

1

12/1/2016

1

6/1/2017

2

8/1/2017

2

9/1/2017

2

1/1/2018

3

3/1/2018

3

1/1/2019

4

3/1/2019

5

8/1/2019

4

9/1/2019

3

9/1/2019

2

9/1/2019

5

9/1/2019

4

9/1/2019

6

9/1/2019

6

  1. Create the following columns in R02_Table:
Month Name = FORMAT([Date],"mmmm")
Year = YEAR([Date])
Month = MONTH([Date])
  1. Create the following measure:
Customers = COUNTROWS(VALUES('R02_Table'[Customer]))
  1. On a Report page, create a matrix visualization with the Month Name column as Rows, the Year column as Columns, and the Customers measure as Values.
  2. Set the Sort by column for the Month Name column to the Month column.