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Filter out but grand total should not be affected.

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:57:17 GMT

I have an original table as below -

but I want to filter out countries with participants less than 5. Hence when i apply filter I get the following matrix -

However, I want total as 13 only. How do I make my "total" in the matrix universal (should not be affected by filter) but at the same time, I should be able to filter out specific countries ?

Re: Filter out but grand total should not be affected.

daXtreme — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:29:54 GMT

I wouldn't do that if I were you. This will be highly confusing to the users. Instead, create 2 measures with good names. One should work normally (i.e., sum up as usual and maybe filter the countries), the other one can be funky. But having a total that does something different than what one would expect... well, that's risky and will trigger a lot of questions.

The measure you're looking for is something like this:

[# Participants] = var CountOfVisibleCountries = COUNTROWS( RelevantDimension[Country] ) var Result = SUMX( DISTINCT( RelevantDimension[Country] ), var CountOfParticipants = [measure to calculate participants as usual] var Result = CountOfParticipants * ( CountOfVisibleCountries > 1 ) + CountOfParticipants * ( CountOfParticipants >= 5 ) * ( CountOfVisibleCountries = 1 ) Return if( Result, Result ) ) return Result

Re: Filter out but grand total should not be affected.

v-yueyunzh-msft — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:05:46 GMT

Hi ,

According to your description, you want to "Filter out but grand total should not be affected". Right?

Here are the steps you can refer to :
(1)This is my test data :

(2)We can create a measure :

Measure = IF(HASONEVALUE('Table'[Country]),SUM('Table'[Participants]), CALCULATE( SUM('Table'[Participants]),ALL('Table')))

(3)Then we can filter the measure <5 and then we can meet your need :

Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI!

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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