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Cumulative measure with both active and inactive relationships in use

marine_adz — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:53:09 GMT

I'm having trouble creating a cumulative sum with both direct and indirect relationships in play. Simplified data structure is as shown - direct relationships between DateTable<-->Invoices and Invoices <--> Payments, then an inactive relationship between Payments <--> DateTable

I have a report level filter on InvoiceDate, to only show data for invoices issued within a certain period (in this case, year), then a matrix of payments per period. This uses the following measure, which works as intended:

Payments = CALCULATE(SUM([Payment Amount]),USERELATIONSHIP(DateTable[Date],Payments[PaymentDate]))

However, I can't figure out the cumulative total - I've tried the following. I've seen suggestions to nest CALCULATE statements, which I think the [Payments] measure is already doing, but I've also copied that calculation in place of the measure, to no effect.

Cumulative Payments = CALCULATE([Payments],FILTER(ALLSELECTED(DateTable),DateTable[Date]<=MAX(DateTable[Date])))

Cumulative Payments = CALCULATE([Payments],FILTER(ALLSELECTED(DateTable),DateTable[Date]<=MAX(DateTable[Date])),USERELATIONSHIP(DateTable[Date],Invoices[InvoiceDate]))

Cumulative Payments = CALCULATE(CALCULATE(SUM([Payment Amount]),USERELATIONSHIP(DateTable[Date],Payments[PaymentDate])),FILTER(ALLSELECTED(DateTable),DateTable[Date]<=MAX(DateTable[Date])),USERELATIONSHIP(DateTable[Date],Invoices[InvoiceDate]))

Any ideas gratefully received!

Re: Cumulative measure with both active and inactive relationships in use

ValtteriN — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:41:33 GMT

Hi,

I think by removing the FILTER in your first cumulative calculation there shouldn't be any issues. If there are try using CROSSFILTER to make sure there isn't any cyclic references.

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Re: Cumulative measure with both active and inactive relationships in use

marine_adz — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:29:54 GMT

Thanks for replying - without the filter, isn't it just the original measure without being cumulative?

I'm sure there will be a way around this through DAX, but I managed to solve it much more simply - created another table (DateTablePayment = 'DateTable'), removed the inactive relationship and added a new active relationship between Payments[PaymentDate] and DateTablePayment[Date]

Re: Cumulative measure with both active and inactive relationships in use

ValtteriN — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:36:29 GMT

Hi marine_adz

I meant removing the FILTER and its corresponding () signs. The basic pattern for RT calculation is like this:
var maxdate = MAX('Calendar'[Date])
CALCULATE(SUM(Table[Value]),ALL(Calendar),Calendar[Date]<=maxdate)