Portfolio Slicer for Power BI — Forum

Help on how to create new dashboards/reports in PowerBI

MikeP — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:40:18 +0000

Hi Vidas, happy new year to you! I have been using PS 3.1 for roughly the past 6 months and would like to explore how to create new dashboards using Power BI from existing data sources. My Excel skills are basic level and despite having watched a few videos on how to start on PBI on YT but I seem to be struggling and would like to get your thoughts and or any tips as to where to look. I see you have have uploaded pics of several interesting dashboards was hoping when you have time, perhaps you could do a step by step video tutorial for beginners like myself would be able to follow and learn. Many thanks!

PowerBI Advantages

Scrappy — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:51:04 +0000

As I am still playing with PS as a new user, I am wondering for the reports whether PowerBI tells me anything that the regular reports spreadsheet doesn't. PSfPBI appears to have more graphs that look great, but does it overall give me any different information? As a retiree, just wondering if it is worth the effort to get an MS Fabric account and PowerBI (it appears to be a bit of a hassle). Thanks for any feedback. Regards, Pat

Power BI does not calculate properly

rvallen — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:27:59 +0000

Hi all, Thank you for providing this great piece of tools. I am fresh user and sofar have set everyting up. The reporting in excel works as intended. However, The Power BI report has issues. I am not sure what the cause is, but for starters it seems that the measure "Total equity" is not calculated (it remains empty. Can you provide any guidance? Thanks, Rob

Dividend Growth Calculation?

zzricezz — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:07:18 +0000

Is this already calculated or can it be done? Thanks.

Original currency gives error

Roshlin — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:47:23 +0000

Hi, Clicking original currency in the overview tab gives error. It was working fine few weeks back. All the tables disappear but the graphs are OK. The holding tab works fine for original and individual currencies. Thanks for your help ErrorMessage: MdxScript(Model) (101, 187) Calculation error in measure 'Report'[Equity Value]: A table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected.

Report Capital Gain % error

zzricezz — Sun, 22 May 2022 15:41:56 +0000

I been trying to figure what this error is for a week now but no luck. I have multiple accounts and none of them have an error except for one where I have pin point the issue to. If I add a new transaction against this account, it would give me the Report Capital Gain % error, once I remove that transaction, there is no error. I noticed in the Overview tab, I see the Cap gain % as -94.70% which isn't right, I think the new transaction push it over -100% which cause the error? I looked all all the transaction and i don't see how it could have calculated -94.70%.

Transactions Not Recognizing?

FrmrHoss — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:27:09 +0000

I've been using portfolio slicer for years now - just in the last batch, I've entered in transactions of purchases/sales that aren't being "picked" up by the spreadsheet (meaning, when I enter in a "buy" transaction, it doesn't then register any change ni the "CashImpact", QtyChange, QtyHeld, etc columns. I do seem to notice that right where this error starts there is a "gap" in my "TransID" where it does not match up with the row of data entry.

Return of Capital (T3)

zzricezz — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:40:14 +0000

Through out the year I have been recording the drip using BuyTA and now I have gotten a T3 where it indicate some of the distribution paid have Return of Capital. Is there a proper way to record this now to properly lower the ACB? I'm thinking of creating a new entry with Return of Capital, Qty = 1 and the amount is the ROC received?

Portfolio Slicer v3.0.0 (Beta)

ak47 — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:33:29 +0000

Hi all , I just discovered this wonderful place & decided to start here to track. As I am just beginning, is it a good idea to start with this version or v2.4 (2019-Jan-11) ? I would rate myself as "above average" user of EXCEL as have learned of my own using web resources about how to use pivot table. A quick reply will be appreciated.

Large Capital Gain loss due to in kind Transfer of stocks

rmweiss12 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:13:24 +0000

In 2018 my broker transferred all stocks from one account to another in kind with a different brokerage firm. To enter these transactions I used the SymbolTransferOut transaction type and specified Qty and Price. Total TransferOut amount was $361,522. Total Cost Basis was -$296,398 as shown in the TransInfo worksheet. But when I run a report in PowerBi, it shows me a Capital Gain loss of -$373,653. Total Value and Cost Basis for that account come out as zero (as expected?). CapGain in that account before the transfer was correct and is also correct in the new account that I transferred into. Since the CapGain loss is close to the TransferOut amount, I suspect that somehow the Start Value of the TransferOut Account is wrong. Must be close to zero. In the Yearly Movements table (Yearly worksheet), the amount shows up as a negative deposit of -$379,772 which results in a CapGain Loss of (only) -$12,131. So why am I getting two different results between PowerSlicer and PowerBI and what could explain the large CapitalGain loss shown in PowerBI? Thanks for any advice you might have.

value of equity report calculation over estimated

andre2020 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:06:48 +0000

Quote price issue with the DOT in the price, ex: Price should be 9.82, it will show 982.00 , this is why the equity calculation is too high, why it doing this, i check config file for separator, and it’s default, i work with English united state format.

UpdatePSData.bat not updating QuoteIntraday folfer

andre2020 — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:16:57 +0000

When i run this UpdatePSData.bat during Saturday ex. (stock exchange are close) the file .tXt is erase and not created in the 'QuoteIntraday' folder, even if i erase the folder, the folder is created but not the file. i check the cfg file, i use the default . It shouls create one with the last ticket symbol value ? # DataRootFolder: Root folder for data. Default: "..\"

Quotes imported to Power BI without decimal points

fbleitao — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:00:13 +0000

The quotes are being imported into Power BI withou decimal points: 117.965856 turns into 117.965.856,00 1269.305868 turns into 1.269.305.868,00 Therefore my portfolio value is overestimated by a lot! On the Excel spreadsheet on the other hand it works fine. How can I configure the decimal point in the Power BI ? In the PSConfig file I have the following: # ColumnSeparator values could be : Comma, Tab, VerticalBar Tab # DecimalSeparator: Default value is . (dot), in some coutries this could be , (comma) ,

GenDiv Used Error in Config Table -PowerBI

srsubs — Sun, 10 May 2020 14:17:15 +0000

The Cash Value calculation Table "Report" in the latest Power BI version shows an error "Column GenDivUsed in Table Config cannot be found or may not be used in this expression". This causes an error in the Cash Value which propagates through many other calculations. Thanks in advance.

Trade Metrics

CNH — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 08:26:06 +0000

Hi Vidas, Forgive me if I can ask a question. Feel free to send me onto researching on PowerBi forums. I am looking to show some trading metrics as attached As an attempt to code this with new measures in Power BI I have created the following measures: * $ Sales Capital Gain = IF('Report'[Sales Capital Gain]<0,'Report'[Sales Capital Gain],0) * $ Sales Capital Loss = IF('Report'[Sales Capital Gain]>0,'Report'[Sales Capital Gain],0) * Sales Capital Gain = IF('Report'[Sales Capital Gain]<0,1,0) * Sales Capital Loss = IF('Report'[Sales Capital Gain]>0,1,0) I have created a copy of your Sales Tab and deleted “Sales Days Since Latest Buy” & “Latest Sell Date” and inserted the above measures. Whilst the above work and shows a split between Profits & Losses in separate columns and similar a “1” against a transaction in separate columns for Loss or gain I am having an issue in having a total of these 4 columns. As an example, the total gain is showing as a total, Say, as an example, $8,000 in the loss column and zero in the gain rather than $12,000 Gain and $4,000 loss columns See attached report from PowerBI Any guidance will be appreciated, however feel free to say if I am asking too much of you.