topic Re: FILTER fuction in CALCULATE causes ALL function not working in DAX Commands and Tips

FILTER fuction in CALCULATE causes ALL function not working

kanielwang — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:32:29 GMT

TotalOpenOrderAmount1 = CALCULATE	([OrderAmount]-[ShippedAmount],
				ALL(CalendarDate),
				OrderLineDetail[Status]="Open")

TotalOpenOrderAmount2 = CALCULATE	([OrderAmount]-[ShippedAmount],
				ALL(CalendarDate),
				Filter(OrderLineDetail,OrderLineDetail[Status]="Open")
				）

TotalOpenOderAmount1 can be measured as expected.

But TotalOpenOrderAmount2 is still affected by Calendar filters on the report.

Why is that? Can someone help to explain it?

Re: FILTER fuction in CALCULATE causes ALL function not working

AlB — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:55:38 GMT

hi kanielwang

Try this. It's the equivalent of TotalOpenOrderAmount1

TotalOpenOrderAmount2 = CALCULATE	([OrderAmount]-[ShippedAmount],
				ALL(CalendarDate),
				Filter(ALL(OrderLineDetail[Status]),OrderLineDetail[Status]="Open")
				）

Re: FILTER fuction in CALCULATE causes ALL function not working

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:02:22 GMT

When you use a table name in a table function, you are in fact referring to the table as it's seen in the current filter context. So, Filter( Table, ...) sees Table as it's filtered, not the whole table. Hence you filter Table which is already filtered by the other filters.

Understandable?

Remember that
calculate(
[...],
Table[Col] = "value"
)
is syntactic sugar for
calculate(
[...],
filter(
ALL ( Table[Col] ),
Table[Col] = "value"
)
)
which is very much different from
calculate(
[...],
filter(
values ( Table[Col] ),
Table[Col] = "value"
)
)
and the latter is equivalent to
calculate(
[...],
keepfilters( Table[Col] = "value" )
)

Best
Darek