Proper Calculation of Facts/Values from Dimensional Table

[Anonymous]

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Userstory:
Imagine you have big star shema model and important values/facts in dimensional Tables.
And you don't want to mess up your fact table with multiple low cardinality columns.
Question: How to proper handle these dimTable facts/values?

Simplified Example:

Question: How to get DESIRED YearVolume (because by default it gives 2200 (Totals) in each cell)?

[tamerj1]

Hi @Anonymous 

how about 

DESIRED YearVolume 2 = 
SUMX (
    SUMMARIZE ( 
        factSales, dimSalesYearly[idYearProduct], 
        "@Volume", SUM ( dimSalesYearly[YearVolume] ) 
    ),
    [@Volume]  
)

?

[NotGregDeckler]

@tamerj1 @Anonymous I came up with:

Measure = 
    VAR __idYearProduct = DISTINCT('factSales'[*idYearProduct])
    VAR __Result = SUMX(FILTER(ALL('dimSalesYearly'), [idYearProduct] IN __idYearProduct), [YearVolume])
RETURN
    __Result

Or, you know, make the relationship bi-directional would work as well.

[Anonymous]

@NotGregDeckler , @tamerj1 
Unbelievable!
Absoulutely different thinking style 🙂👍
I updated Source file with your solutions.

Thank you very much!

P.S. Not clear from this discussion branch, but I asked @tamerj1  and @NotGregDeckler in this post, if it's possible to create this measure without explicite use of CALCULATE function according to DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard phylosophy. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Solution ( Download Here )

DESIRED YearVolume = 
CALCULATE(
    SUM(dimSalesYearly[YearVolume]),
    KEEPFILTERS(factSales)
)

It could be used as simple pattern for similar cases

Advanced Example Solution:
If you have a bit more complicated model:

Sometimes you need fixed Totals as well:

DESIRED YearVolume (Fixed Totals) = 
VAR isInSc_Prod = ISINSCOPE(dimProduct[idProduct])
VAR isInSc_Year = ISINSCOPE('Calendar'[Year])
VAR Result =
    SWITCH(
        TRUE(),
        NOT isInSc_Prod && NOT isInSc_Year, 
            CALCULATE([DESIRED YearVolume],REMOVEFILTERS(dimProduct[idProduct]),REMOVEFILTERS('Calendar'[Year])),
        NOT isInSc_Prod, CALCULATE([DESIRED YearVolume], REMOVEFILTERS(dimProduct[idProduct])),
        NOT isInSc_Year, CALCULATE([DESIRED YearVolume], REMOVEFILTERS('Calendar'[Year])),
        [DESIRED YearVolume]
    )

RETURN Result

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[v-rzhou-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Thank you for your sharing. Please kindly accept your workaround as the solution. Then more people will see your post.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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