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Anonymous
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Power BI: Showing latest 3 dates for a group

Hello everyone, 

I have a problem. I want to show the latest 3 dates only for status "Completed" as illustrated bellow. Tried rankx, topN value and max values approaches, but didn't work out. Basically I need to return the 3 most recent dates just for "Completed" along with any number of results for "Overdue" and "Future" (e.g. regardless of the number of their dates for the latter). A measure must be generated. Any solutions will be highly appreciated.

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Thanks, KGeorge

 

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
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A showcase of powerful Excel formula,

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Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

CNENFRNL_0-1669320988776.png

 

A showcase of powerful Excel formula,

CNENFRNL_1-1669321063463.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

Anonymous
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Hello , thank you for you solution. As I specified the main goal is to have a measure with the latest 3 dates for completed; no filter / no ranks ( having anydates) for overdo and future status in one cumulative table. However, I believe your proposition is approaching the final solution of the issue.

Regards,

K.

tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @Anonymous 

please try

FilterMeasure =
VAR CurrentDate =
SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Date] )
VAR CurrentStatus =
SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Status] )
VAR T1 =
CALCULATETABLE ( VALUES ( 'Table'[Date] ), ALLSELECTED ( 'Table' ) )
VAR T2 =
TOPN ( 3, T1, 'Table'[Date], ASC )
RETURN
IF ( CurrentStatus = "Completed", IF ( CurrentDate IN T2, 1 ), 1 )

 

place this measure in the filter pane of the visual and select "is not blank" then spply the filter

FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

try to create a new table with the code below:

Table =
VAR Table1 =
    FILTER(
        TableName,
        TableName[Status] = "Completed"
    )
VAR Table2=
TOPN(
    3,
    Table1,
    TableName[Date]
)
RETURN Table2
 
I tried and it worked like this:
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Anonymous
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Thank you very much for the response, I haven't specified that I need a measure , where the top 3 "Completed" will be shown along with the other status "Overdue","Future", regardless of both numbers of results.

 

 

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