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Kushalappa_BE
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RANKX

Hello All! 
I was Just Trying out Rankx fx.
I noticed that the function works fine if a measure is given as the argument for expression but, fails to work as per expectation when the aggregation of a column is passed as an expression.
(e.g., Context is Derive Rank based on Salary of Employees  if, we pass a measure "total salary" which is nothing but sum of existing column salary the function returns the expected output however, if we pass sum of salary instead of measure the rankx fails) 
I assume in case of passing aggregated column, it takes into account the total and returns a single rank but it works fine with measures and this is what I am not able to understand. 
Any explaination on this ?  

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FreemanZ
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hi @Kushalappa_BE 

a measure is always surrounded by a CALCULATE implicitely, so try to replace it with CALCULATE(SUM(Table[Column]))

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