Circular Dependency: How to solve it easily

MrAustria

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After my inital problems and my first trials with PowerBI, I am quite satisfied with the result. Finally, I am facing one last problem - and I have not found any solution therefore: circular dependency

Table "Sales"
S = Sales
X. = Price reduction
TypePriceYear
X1-102019
X1-52020
X2-42020
X302019
X3-32019
X3-52019
S502019
S302020
S402019
S252020

Table "Price codes"
TypeDescriptionMaximum number of voucher
X1General discount50
X2Annual discount10
X3Christmas discount5


Result: when using slicer for 2020

TypeDescriptionSum of reductionCountAverage (Sum / Count)Achieved (Count / Maximum Number of voucher)
X1General discount-51-52%
X2Annual discount-41-410%
X3Christmas discount0000%

The calculations were being made by using Measures.
When calculation the Column "Achieved", I always get a circular dependency as a result. How can I easily solve and avoid this problem?
 

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What are your formulas? Where are they?

Trying to replicate what you are providing : error message on renaming table to Price codes : "space are not allowed"
Fine with Price_codes.

I see your Christmas discount calculations are all 0. This looks there may be a division by 0 on this line.
 
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My formulas are in table "Sales".

Yes, the christmas discounts are all 0 when selecting Year 2020.
 
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SumOfReduction = Calculate(Sum('Sales'[Price]);('Sales'[Price]<0);PriceCodes[Type]<>0)
Count = Calculate(Count('Sales'[Price]);'Sales'[Price]<0)
Average = Divide([SumOfReduction];[Count])

These formulas work properly, I just have a circular dependency with the following one:
Achieved = Divide([Count];[MaximumNumberOfVoucher])

How could I solve the circular dependency in the last formula?
 
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