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problem with all except

ahmedshalabyy12 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:14:48 GMT

Dears,

I’m trying to display the total amount (8M) for each organization in every row of the matrix, but it’s not working as expected.

Org Name comes from Dim_Organizations
Recommended Amount comes from Fact_Table
Terms come from Dim_Terms
Rec Amount is supposed to display 8M in each row, but instead it’s splitting the value.

Can you please help me identify why this is happening and how to fix it?

Measure
Rec_Amount =
CALCULATE (
[Total Amount (Sum)],
ALLEXCEPT ( Organizations, Organizations[Organization Name] )
, ALLEXCEPT(Terms,Terms_years ) )

Re: problem with all except

Ahmed-Elfeel — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:27:08 GMT

Hi ahmedshalabyy12,

The issue here that is you are applying this to two different tables which is causing unexpected behavior

Your current measure:

Rec_Amount = CALCULATE ( [Total Amount (Sum)], ALLEXCEPT ( Organizations, Organizations[Organization Name] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Terms, Terms[TermYears] ) )

This is saying "Remove all filters except Organization Name from the Organizations table AND remove all filters except TermYears from the Terms table (This creates conflicting filter contexts)

You need to use ALLEXCEPT on the fact table (or use a different approach) to ignore the TermYears filter while keeping the Organization Name filter

So you can use ALLEXCEPT on the fact table (if possible)

Rec_Amount = CALCULATE ( [Total Amount (Sum)], ALLEXCEPT ( Fact_Table, Organizations[Organization Name] ) )

Or use REMOVEFILTERS for more precise control

Rec_Amount = CALCULATE ( [Total Amount (Sum)], Organizations[Organization Name] = SELECTEDVALUE(Organizations[Organization Name]), REMOVEFILTERS ( Terms ) )

You can also ALL with VALUES (most reliable)

Rec_Amount = CALCULATE ( [Total Amount (Sum)], ALL ( Terms ), VALUES ( Organizations[Organization Name] ) )

This will:

Remove any filtering from the Terms table (including TermYears)
Preserve the current Organization Name filter
Show the total $8M for (Black Futures Lab) in every row of your matrix

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Re: problem with all except

FBergamaschi — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 09:53:07 GMT

The problem is that you are not removing the filter nor from Terms nor from Organization name

If you want to see 8M everywhere, you need to remove those filters, so please use this code (or a slight variation we might fix later)

Rec_Amount =
CALCULATE (
[Total Amount (Sum)],
REMOVEFILTERS( Organizations[Organization Name] ),
REMOVEFILTERS( Terms_years )
)

If you want to remove filters from other columns, from those tables, you can list them in the rremovefilters call afer a comma

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