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DH3612
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Dax - Ignores filter Condition

I have a piece of code in DAX that "works" perfectly. However if I add an extra filter inito the code, then it goes a bit pear shaped. For the life of me I ave tried to fix this and failed miserably. Any suggestions welcome 🙂 

The code below. This works perfect - counting staff at month end each month. BUT, only if no slicers are active to filter "Business Area". 

EmployeesAtEndOfMonth = 
IF(
    ISFILTERED('staffmaster'[Business Area]), 
    CALCULATE(
        DISTINCTCOUNT('staffmaster'[Unique ID]),
        FILTER(
            ALL('staffmaster'),
            'staffmaster'[Business Area] IN VALUES ('STAFFMASTER'[Business Area]) &&
            ('staffmaster'[End Date] >= MAX('Date'[End of Month]) || ISBLANK('staffmaster'[End Date])) &&
            'staffmaster'[Start Date] <= MAX('Date'[End of Month]) 
            
        )
    ),
    CALCULATE(
        DISTINCTCOUNT('staffmaster'[Unique ID]),
        FILTER(
            ALL('staffmaster'),
            ('staffmaster'[End Date] >= MAX('Date'[End of Month]) || ISBLANK('staffmaster'[End Date])) &&
            'staffmaster'[Start Date] <= MAX('Date'[End of Month])
        )
    )
)

 

If I select a "Business Area" in a slicer.  Lets for example say "HR", then I get some odd behavour. If the month in question did not have someone new starting that month, it doesnt count anything for that month.

Example - 
Jan23 - 30 staff (Powerbi counts 30 staff because someone new started month)

Feb 23 - 37 staff (because at least one new start that month)
Mar23 - 0 staff (no new starts this month so powerbi just counts the month as blank)

April 23 - 35 staff (at least one new start)

May23 - 0 staff (no new starts this month)

Jun23 - 36 staff (at least one new start)

 

So the only correlation between the blanks is that we had no new starts in "HR" in the blank months. I have check against other Business Areas and the correlation seems to hold up. ANy business area where we had a least one new start each month, has no blanks. Any business area where we had no new starts in any month, those months show a blank. 

 

Im no PBI master and I expect the answer is simple enough, but im stumped. 

 

As for data tables the data comes from:


Date Table - marked as date table, called "Date". Has columns for [Date], [End of Month]

Staff table - called Staffmaster. Has columns for [Unique ID], [Start Date], [End Date], [Business Area].

 

All i want to do is show a number of staff employed on the last day of each month, and be able to filter it by business area. 

 

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DH3612
Frequent Visitor

OK, I have no idea why it was counting that way. And I have rewritten the entire piece to use @amitchandak code from his youtube page. It works perfect under all tests now. 

Amits Youtube Linky 

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DH3612
Frequent Visitor

OK, I have no idea why it was counting that way. And I have rewritten the entire piece to use @amitchandak code from his youtube page. It works perfect under all tests now. 

Amits Youtube Linky 

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