How can I create a formula which will calculate per unit calcs correctly along all levels of a hierarchy. For example if at the top of the Product hierarchy calc Sales for all products/ Units for all products. It looks like Pigment adds the sum of all Sales/Units prices.
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Sales per Unit Pricing along a hierarchy
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Hi Kevin!
This is a common issue, by default, when you have a formula like Sales / Units, Pigment aggregates the result — so at parent levels in your hierarchy, it sums the individual per-unit prices instead of computing Total Sales / Total Units.
A potential solution is to use Show Value As
Instead of a single ratio metric, keep Sales and Units as separate metrics in your table, then:
- Click on the Sales metric → Show Value As → % of → select the Units metric
- Hide the Units metric in the pivot
- Change the formatting to absolute (not percentage)
This way the division happens after aggregation, giving you the correct ratio at every hierarchy level.
Here's a community article walking through this approach: How to Calculate Ratios and Averages at Summary Levels
Hope that helps!
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