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Different measure depending on filters

jeffshieldsdev — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:55:36 GMT

I have a mixed grain problem.

In my model I have two fact tables: Unique Visits by Country, and Unique Visits by State.

These are both aggregated counts. Unique Visits by State is always accurate in visuals, but I can't merely SUM Unique Visits by State to get Unique Visits by Country because it results in double-counting--if there are two States with two Unique Visits, Unique Visits by the Country should be two--not four.

So I need to seperate tables in my model.

My challenge is in getting the right value to show in a hierarchial Matrix visual. This measure seems to work:

Unique Visits (measure) = CALCULATE( IF( ISFILTERED('Geo Hierarchy'[State]), SUM('Unique Visits by State'[Unique Visits]), SUM('Unique Visits by Country'[Unique Visits]) ) )

But if I have a Report-level or Page-level filters on 'Geo Hierarchy'[State] than the Unique Visits by State will show in the Country-level of the matrix.

Is there a better approach, or how can I get my measure to ignore Report- or Page-level filters? Thank you.

Example: Mixed Grain Aggregation Problem_2022-10-05_1535.pbix

Re: Different measure depending on filters

v-yueyunzh-msft — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:56:55 GMT

Hi , jeffshieldsdev

If you want to ignore the 'Geo Hierarchy'[State] filter on your visual , you need to use ALL() function , like this:

Unique Visits (measure) = CALCULATE( IF( ISFILTERED('Geo Hierarchy'[State/Prov]), SUM('Unique Visits by State'[Unique Visits by State]), SUM('Unique Visits by Country'[Unique Visits by Country]) ),ALL('Geo Hierarchy'[State/Prov]) )

Also for your question, you can provide us with the sample output data you want so that we can better help you.

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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Re: Different measure depending on filters

jeffshieldsdev — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:58:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I shared a .pbix above.

The green column in my screenshot is what I should be getting. The measure does work, but when there is a Page- or Report-level filter, it does not because ISFILTERED() returns TRUE when there's a Page-/Report-level filter.

Re: Different measure depending on filters

jeffshieldsdev — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:45:39 GMT

Maybe HASONEFILTER() is a better choice here. Only one filter will be present the lower-granularity rows of the Matrix visual, so this works:

Unique Visits (measure)3 = CALCULATE( IF( HASONEFILTER('Geo Hierarchy'[State/Prov]), SUM('Unique Visits by State'[Unique Visits by State]), SUM('Unique Visits by Country'[Unique Visits by Country]) ) )

EDIT: This doesn't work in all situations either. Basically when at a State level in the hierarchy, I want to pull the value from the State table--otherwise I want to pull from the Country table.

Re: Different measure depending on filters

jeffshieldsdev — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:00:08 GMT

I found this solution from Phil Seamark at DAX.tips

Creative Aggs Part I : Introduction - Phil Seamark on DAX

It uses INSCOPE() so I'm going to go with that.

Unique Visits (measure) ISINSCOPE = CALCULATE( IF( ISINSCOPE('Geo Hierarchy'[State/Prov]), SUM('Unique Visits by State'[Unique Visits by State]), SUM('Unique Visits by Country'[Unique Visits by Country]) ) )