Hierarchies in Power BI

This article is about hierarchy creation in Power BI Desktop. Hierarchy is a relationship, where one of the items is “detail” of another one. Like Continent / country / city, Year / month / day or, like here, Brand of car / specific model of car.

It is very easy. In Power BI Desktop, in a table with data, drag the “lower” item to the “higher” one – and possibly do the same with any other item that should be included in hierarchy:

Hierarchy is done:It can be used in visuals: