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UB40
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Help With RANKX

I'm very new to PowerBi and am looking for some help with the RANX function. I have a table, 'Result Grades', that needs to grouped as per the table below i.e 'RecNum', 'AcYr', 'Assessment', 'A8 Order' and then ranked by the 'Result Pts' (ascending). I have tried many different ways and the closest I've come to solving the problem is with the formula :-

RankA8 =

RANKX(
FILTER(ALL(
'Result Grades'),
'Result Grades'[RecNum] = EARLIER('Result Grades'[RecNum])&&[A8Order]="1"
),
'Result Grades'[RecNum]&[AcYr]&[Assessment]&[A8Order]&[ResultPts]&[Code]
,,desc
)

The only problem with this formula is it just ranks all the grades for each 'RecNum from 1 to the highest value. Is there any way to achieve the ranking as per the column 'Rank Wanted' as below. 

RecNum

AcYr

Assessment

A8Order

Code

Result Pts

RankA8

 

Rank Wanted

8998

2017

3

1

aa

6

1

 

1

8998

2017

3

1

bb

5

2

 

2

8998

2017

2

1

bb

3

3

 

1

8998

2017

2

1

aa

3

4

 

2

8998

2017

1

1

bb

7

5

 

1

8998

2017

1

1

aa

7

6

 

2

10265

2021

1

1

bb

5

1

 

1

10265

2021

1

1

aa

5

2

 

2

10265

2020

3

1

bb

5

3

 

1

10265

2020

3

1

aa

4

4

 

2

10265

2020

2

1

bb

5

5

 

1

10265

2020

2

1

aa

4

6

 

2

10265

2020

1

1

bb

6

7

 

1

10265

2020

1

1

aa

5

8

 

2

10265

2019

2

1

bb

5

9

 

1

10265

2019

2

1

aa

5

10

 

2

10265

2018

3

1

bb

4

11

 

1

10265

2018

2

1

bb

3

12

 

1

10265

2018

1

1

En

3

13

 

1

10265

2017

3

1

En

3

14

 

1

10265

2017

2

1

En

4

15

 

1

10265

2017

1

1

En

4

16

 

1

 

  • UB40 , A new Rank Column

     

    RANKX(
    FILTER('Result Grades',
    'Result Grades'[RecNum] = EARLIER('Result Grades'[RecNum]) && 'Result Grades'[RecNum] = earlier('Result Grades'[RecNum]) &&
    'Result Grades'[AcYr] = earlier('Result Grades'[AcYr]) && 'Result Grades'[Assessment] = earlier('Result Grades'[Assessment]) &&
    [A8Order]="1"
    ),
    [ResultPts]
    ,,desc
    )

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  • UB40 , A new Rank Column

     

    RANKX(
    FILTER('Result Grades',
    'Result Grades'[RecNum] = EARLIER('Result Grades'[RecNum]) && 'Result Grades'[RecNum] = earlier('Result Grades'[RecNum]) &&
    'Result Grades'[AcYr] = earlier('Result Grades'[AcYr]) && 'Result Grades'[Assessment] = earlier('Result Grades'[Assessment]) &&
    [A8Order]="1"
    ),
    [ResultPts]
    ,,desc
    )

  • UB40's avatar
    UB40
    Frequent Visitor

    Thank you so much for helping. 🙂