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nhniniras
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3 years ago
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RANKX on selected field parameter

Is there anyone who have succeded creating a dynamic RANKX based on a Parameter Field selection? Today I have a this "static" Rank measure: Rank BU and Gross Revenue = RANKX(all(DimOrganisation[...
  • v-easonf-msft's avatar
    v-easonf-msft
    3 years ago

    Hi， nhniniras 

    Are you referring to this kind of ‘Field-parameters’ ?

    Currently, PowerBI does not support direct use of field parameters in measure.

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Eason

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Hello nhniniras ,

     

    I was also looking a solution for this in the web, and then I realized that "field parameter" is only for Power Bi to understand it, but at the end is about the columns you have included in your fields.

     

    So what I did is to created a measure with an if statement according to the Order of my fields names and is working perfectly (I used the measure to show a specific number of customers in a visual according to a slicer, hence the switch true):

    IF(SELECTEDVALUE(localCustomers[localCustomers Order]) = 0
        ,SWITCH(TRUE()
            ,RANKX(
                ALLSELECTED('Dim Customer'[LOCAL_CUSTOMER_NAME])
                ,[businessMetricCP]
                ,,,Dense
            ) <= SelectedTop,
            1
        )
        ,SWITCH(TRUE()
            ,RANKX(
                ALLSELECTED('Dim Customer'[CUSTOMER_KEY])
                ,[businessMetricCP]
                ,,,Dense
            ) <= SelectedTop,
            1
        )
    )
     
    Hope can help others with the same doubts.
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
3 years ago

Hello nhniniras ,

 

I was also looking a solution for this in the web, and then I realized that "field parameter" is only for Power Bi to understand it, but at the end is about the columns you have included in your fields.

 

So what I did is to created a measure with an if statement according to the Order of my fields names and is working perfectly (I used the measure to show a specific number of customers in a visual according to a slicer, hence the switch true):

IF(SELECTEDVALUE(localCustomers[localCustomers Order]) = 0
    ,SWITCH(TRUE()
        ,RANKX(
            ALLSELECTED('Dim Customer'[LOCAL_CUSTOMER_NAME])
            ,[businessMetricCP]
            ,,,Dense
        ) <= SelectedTop,
        1
    )
    ,SWITCH(TRUE()
        ,RANKX(
            ALLSELECTED('Dim Customer'[CUSTOMER_KEY])
            ,[businessMetricCP]
            ,,,Dense
        ) <= SelectedTop,
        1
    )
)
 
Hope can help others with the same doubts.
nhniniras's avatar
nhniniras
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hi and sorry for my late respons, but thank you very much.
I think we more or less ended up with the same solution with some IF and Swithc functions 🙂

In my solution I ended up writing a bunch of measures and used the Switch function to find the "parameter" measure the user wants create a Top X on.

 
------- 1. My Switch function
Measure TopX selected =
SWITCH (
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'ParameterTopX'[Parameter_TopX Fields] ),
    "'ALL_Measures'[Top X BU]",
        [Top X BU]
            / CALCULATE (
                [Measure selected],
                ALLSELECTED ( DimOrganisation_project[BU_Initial] )
            ),
    "'ALL_Measures'[Top X Company]",
        [Top X Company]
            / CALCULATE (
                [Measure selected],
                ALLSELECTED ( DimOrganisation_project[ReportCompanyDescription] )
            ),
    "'ALL_Measures'[Top X Customer]",
        [Top X Customer]
            / CALCULATE ( [Measure selected], ALLSELECTED ( Customer_Bridge[Customer] ) ),
 
---- 2. create measures for all "parameter" measures used in Switch function to filter Top X (number of Top X ranks the user wants to see)
Top X BU =
IF ( [Rank BU] <= 'TopXSeries'[TopXValue], [Measure selected] )
 
---- 3. create the Rank function
Rank BU =
IF (
    HASONEVALUE ( DimOrganisation_project[BU_Initial] ),
    RANKX (
        ALLSELECTED ( DimOrganisation_project[BU_Initial] ),
        [Measure selected]
    )
)
 
 I don't know if it could have been made easier, but it works as it should - so thank you all for your input.