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MGASP01
Frequent Visitor

Help with ignoring filters on calculating a backlog

Hi all,
I need to create a measure that calculates a work backlog.
Since it's a backlog, I don't want the result to be affected by any filter the user could apply by using a date slicer on the same page.
So I have two tables, bl_next and bl_next_calendar.
bl_next has 4 columns: case_id, status, date, market.
bl_next_calendar has 3 columns: date, week, month.
There's a relationship between the tables on the date field.
 
This is what I've come up to:
 
backlog_count =
    CALCULATE(
        COUNTX(FILTER(bl_next, bl_next[status] <> "Closed" && bl_next[status] <> "Cancelled"), bl_next[case_id]),
        REMOVEFILTERS(bl_next_calendar),
        VALUES(bl_next[market])
    )
 
Can anyone help me on this?
When the user filters the date slicer to a specific range of dates it affects the result and I don't want this to happen.
 
Thank you in advance.
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Rupak_bi
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

Can you please share sample data and the desired output you are looking at? just to check why these solutions are not working.  If the output is a separate visual, you may try switching off the visual interactions as well from the format pane.



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Rupak
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MGASP01
Frequent Visitor

Thanks guys for your help.

Unfortunately, none of your tips have worked.

I can't figure out why, but filtering dates with the slicer is still messing up the results.
The only thing I could get to work was duplicating the bl_next table and keeping just the columns I needed, without linking it to anything else.

I know it's a terrible solution, but it's the best I could do.

forgetmenot
Helper I
Helper I

try this :

backlog_count =
CALCULATE(
    COUNTX(
        FILTER(
            bl_next, 
            bl_next[status] <> "Closed" && bl_next[status] <> "Cancelled"
        ), 
        bl_next[case_id]
    ), 
    ALL(bl_next_calendar), 
    VALUES(bl_next[market])
)
FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

hi @MGASP01 ,

 

try like:

backlog_count =
    CALCULATE(
        COUNTX(FILTER(bl_next, bl_next[status] <> "Closed" && bl_next[status] <> "Cancelled"), bl_next[case_id]),
        REMOVEFILTERS(bl_next_calendar),
        REMOVEFILTERS(bl_next[date]),
        VALUES(bl_next[market])
    )

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