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VTB
Frequent Visitor

Inner Filter and Outer Filter not working

hi folks, 

 

I am trying to do a dual filter on a table, running DirectQuery mode, which doesnt seem to work as I hoped - hoping someone here has better ideas.

 

Example table:

 

Outcome dateOutcome 1Outcome Show
4/5/201956700
4/9/201978800
5/23/2019250900
7/30/2019791000
7/30/2019801100

 

 

what I am trying to do is a table that shows:

Outcome dateOutcome Show
7/30/20191100

 

with this Measure:

 

Outcome Filter Measure = SUMX(
            FILTER(
                FILTER(
                    'Outcome Table',
                    'Outcome Table'[Outcome Date]=MAX('Outcome Table'[Outcome Date])
                ),
                'Outcome Table'[Outcome 1]=MAX('Outcome Table'[Outcome 1])
                ),
                 'Outcome Table'[Outcome Show]*1

 

Which ends up showing up blank - because the outer filter doesnt seem to work - ie. DAX views them not as sequential filters, but as "AND" filters. So if dont do the second filter, and just filter for MAX Outcome Date, I end up with first row of Max date, showing 1000, while I want to have the table filtered first down to the Latest date availiable, then within that subset, look for the largest Outcome 1 value, then only show resulting row. 

 

Thanks all!

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Mariusz
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @VTB 

 

Try the below.

Measure = 
VAR _date = CALCULATE( MAX( 'Outcome Table'[Outcome date] ), ALL('Outcome Table' ) )
VAR _one = CALCULATE( MAX( 'Outcome Table'[Outcome 1] ), 'Outcome Table'[Outcome date] = _date )
RETURN CALCULATE( SUM( 'Outcome Table'[Outcome Show] ) * 1, 'Outcome Table'[Outcome 1] = _one )
Best Regards,
Mariusz

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Mariusz Repczynski

 

VTB
Frequent Visitor

got the syntax to work, but returns blanks for every row. 

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