Forum Discussion
Drilling doesn't work
Original Post - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Monthly-Total-Open-Cases/mp/1284325#M561428
Can anyone advise how to get the following measurement to drill correctly?
In my previous post, a member successfully provided a qualifying metric (a month-to-month count of active users, with a start date and no end date, including those from previous months) See the context above.
The next step has me struggling again!
I understand that the drill-through feature is not possible with the current measure as we have a CALCULATE in the DAX and Power BI cannot use the complex measure to drill down. The first question I can take on from the measure created above will be "great, can I see who is active for each month, now I want to know, who are they?"
I'm trying to create a page where I can drill down to the list of PERSON_IDs that are in that month, from the measure created:
Please try this measure added to your table visual on the drillthrough page. I reproduced your scenario on my end and this appears to get your desired functionality.
IsActive = VAR mindate = MIN ( 'Date'[Date] ) VAR maxdate = MAX ( 'Date'[Date] ) RETURN CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Employees ), ALL ( 'Date' ), OR ( Employees[EndDate] >= mindate, ISBLANK ( Employees[EndDate] ) ), Employees[StartDate] <= maxdate )If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
11 Replies
- amitchandak
Super User
Anonymous , as of now you can only drill on dimension/column values
amitchandak I am trying to drill-through the bar chart visualisation, so that it shows the applicable PERSON_ID that is being counted for that month. For some reason the original bar chart was removed from my post, I have added it again.
v-xuding-msftCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous ,
Your image shows that you have added a meausre into drill-through field. So this page is a detailed one. You need to click the values from another page then it will jump to this page.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-drillthrough
- mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
You should be able to drill through on your month column. Also, please try the modified expression. It now only removes the filters from the date columns instead of from the whole table (including Person_ID). It should return 1 for each active employee in the date range in scope.
Active Persons =VAR maxdate =MAX ( 'Calendar'[Date] )RETURNCALCULATE (DISTINCTCOUNT ( DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[PERSON_ID] ),ALL ( 'Calendar'[Date] ),FILTER (ALL ( DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[START_DATE], DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[END_DATE], ),DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[START_DATE] <= maxdate&& OR (DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[END_DATE] > maxdate,ISBLANK ( DM_PERIODS_OF_CARE[END_DATE] ))))If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
Hi mahoneypat,
Unfortunately that does not work, it creates the same problem as in my original post. It filters the Active Persons for that month only, when what is needed is the count of active persons that have a start date and no end date that are active in that month and every month where they are active (as your original measure successfully does) e.g:
person 1 has a start date in Jan 2020 and no end date, therefore needs to be counted in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug.
person 2 has a start date in Mar 2020 and no end date, therefore needs to be counted in Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug.
person 3 has a start date in Mar 2020 and an end date in Jun 2020, therefore needs to be counted in Mar, Apr, May, Jun.
The next step is to be able to drill-through on that month (on the bar chart visualisation) and see who those active persons are for that month (in a table visualisation on another page)
Please see my post as I have edited it for clarity. The bar chart shows the correct numbers, however when I drill-through to a page with a table with persons on, it does not work.
Thanks again for your assistance Pat,
Dan.
- mahoneypat
Please try this measure added to your table visual on the drillthrough page. I reproduced your scenario on my end and this appears to get your desired functionality.
IsActive = VAR mindate = MIN ( 'Date'[Date] ) VAR maxdate = MAX ( 'Date'[Date] ) RETURN CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Employees ), ALL ( 'Date' ), OR ( Employees[EndDate] >= mindate, ISBLANK ( Employees[EndDate] ) ), Employees[StartDate] <= maxdate )If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
