topic Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship) in DAX Commands and Tips

Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Zahur — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:43:55 GMT

Hi all,

I have a very simple model and I’m stuck on something that feels like it should be straightforward.

Staff table with columns:

Person
StartDate
EndDate

Date table with:

Active relationship → Staff[StartDate]
Inactive relationship → Staff[EndDate]

Goal:

A Date slicer drives both visuals.
One table visual shows all people who started in the selected month/year (this works fine via StartDate).
Another table visual should show all people who left in the selected month/year (based on EndDate).

What I tried:
I created this measure:

Leavers =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( Staff ),
    USERELATIONSHIP ( Staff[EndDate], DateTable[Date] )
)

This works correctly in a card visual (I see the leaver count for the selected month).
But when I add Leavers as a filter on a table visual (e.g. show only rows where Leavers > 0), the table goes blank — no rows are returned. It works if I add the Leavers measure as a column in the table but I do not want this.

Question:
How can I filter a table visual so that it shows only those staff whose EndDate falls in the slicer period, given that StartDate is the active relationship?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

FBergamaschi — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:52:06 GMT

Hi Zahur

am I understadning correctly that you are using a measure as a filter for the visual? If yes, you need to consider that this creates the evaluation of the measure with a set of filters identified by the columns you grouped.

So to help you I need the pbix, can you share it via private message or put the file in a cloud service and share the link here?

I need to understand how the visual is arranged, your DAX is OK but measures used as filters are complex to manage

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Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Zahur — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:42:04 GMT

Thank you for the quick response Francesco. Yes, I am trying to use the Leaver measure as a filter on the table visual. Here is a link to the pbix Example.pbix.

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Shahid12523 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:46:11 GMT

Your Leavers measure works for totals but not row-level filters.

Fix: create a boolean flag measure using the inactive EndDate relationship, then filter the table visual on it:

ShowLeaver =
CALCULATE (
COUNTROWS ( Staff ),
USERELATIONSHIP ( Staff[EndDate], DateTable[Date] )
) > 0

Now in your table visual filter pane → set ShowLeaver = TRUE.

This way only staff with EndDate in the slicer period will appear.

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Zahur — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:51:15 GMT

Thank you Shahid12523 and FBergamaschi for your replies. I tried Shahid12523 measure but it did not work so I modified it to

mShowLeaver =

IF(CALCULATE (

COUNTROWS ( Staff ),

USERELATIONSHIP (Staff[EndDate], DateTable[Date])

) > 0,1,0)

But that did not work either.

Here is my latest pbix Example.pbix

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Shahid12523 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:13:54 GMT

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Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Zahur — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:55:13 GMT

Thank you Shahid12523 but I’d prefer to keep the discussion here so others can also benefit. The problem stated is really simple and I have provided a basic example pbix.

After spending many hours on this problem on forums and ChatGPT, I have decided to stick with the fudge fix of adding my original Leavers measure to the visual table as an invisible column.

Of course, I would welcome and appreciate anyone that is able to solve this very simple but frustating problem.

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Rupak_bi — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:51:41 GMT

Hi Zahur ,

hope this meets your expectation

Attaching PBIX as well. If works, accept as solution.

Re: Filter Table Visual by EndDate (Inactive Relationship)

Zahur — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:39:30 GMT

Many thanks Rupak_bi I will accept this as a solution. It creates a measure for use in the table making use of the inactive relationship. It is a shame there was no way to create a measure that worked as a filter but your solution is good!