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Sureshot
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8 years ago
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DAX expression I cannot get to work - please help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi.

My first post.

So I have a matrix and on this matrix I am trying to calculate in DAX a field called % of Premium.

Please see pic above, for 2017 the % of Premium value for the Liability section should be 22.14% (175607198 / 793274434)

However given the following DAX formula I get 33.61% (175607198 / 52638561)

 

% of Premium = SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]) / CALCULATE(SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]), ALLSELECTED())

 

You may be asking why I'm not using SQL to do this and the fact is that running this calculation over SQL will get me spurious results. I really need to use the row total Power BI is using.

 

Please help.

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  • Sureshot's avatar
    Sureshot
    8 years ago

    Here's what worked but I don't understand why!

    I just added the red part and all worked.

     

    % of Premium = DIVIDE(SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]), CALCULATE(SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]), ALLEXCEPT('Agency Scorecard 3','Agency Scorecard 3'[Loss Year]),'Agency Scorecard 3'[Summary Line ID],'Business Division'[BusinessDivisionID], VALUES('Business Division'[BusinessDivisionID])), 0)

     

    Thanks all for your help in getting me on the right track.

     

    Here's the post that explains why the Values function works so now I know.

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/ALLEXCEPT-only-working-on-visible-row-context/td-p/18030

     

    You keep adding for all your report (might work with page/visualisation filters I don;t know) filters as follows:

     

    % of Premium = DIVIDE(SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]), CALCULATE( SUM('Agency Scorecard 3'[Earned Premium]), ALLEXCEPT('Agency Scorecard 3','Agency Scorecard 3'[Loss Year]),'Agency Scorecard 3'[Summary Line ID],'Business Division'[BusinessDivisionID], VALUES('Business Division'[BusinessDivisionID]), VALUES('Agent'[Agent Alternate 1]), VALUES('Agent'[Agent Alternate 2]), VALUES('Sub Producer'[Alt Sub Producer 2]), VALUES('Managing Unit'[Managing Unit Name]), VALUES(Office[Office]), VALUES('Product Line'[Product Line Name]), VALUES(Underwriter[Underwriter Name]) ),0)

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    • Sureshot's avatar
      Sureshot
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      8 years ago

      Hi. Thanks but that gave 7.28% for the example I gave. I donlt even know how 7.28% is caculated.

      • Zubair_Muhammad's avatar
        Zubair_Muhammad
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        8 years ago

        Hi Sureshot

         

        Actually ALLSELECTED works on Totals. It does not impact Row and Column filters

         

        Could you share your file via googledrive or onedrive?