Plotting Goal in Power BI

A customer wanted a bar chart where each bar shows the invoiced and realized sales and a marker to show a goal, as sketched below (notice the Budget marker). The chart had to render the data from SSAS.

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In SSRS, this of course can be done using a bullet gauge, which I hope one day will make its way to Excel and Power View. Because Excel PivotChart doesn’t support XY Scatter charts when connected to SSAS, the compromise is to use a column chart, such as the one below, where the goal was plotted as a line chart with the line hidden and only markers visible.

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The closest Power View compromise would be the chart below. This requires the latest Power View build which is only available in Power BI 2.0. In Power BI, Power View supports a Combo Chart Stacked variation.

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