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I'm trying to caluclate the top 7 Gross Adds by month. So I use the filter topn in the filter section which works fine. But I want to have another table next to it that adds 364 days to each top 7 dates, so as to project the future year top dates but on the same weekday. I have a slicer that is Month Year.
So I try a measure that results in error that "expression refers to multiple columns".
TopFutureDates =
TOPN (
7,
ALLSELECTED( 'Subscriber Activity'),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
) So I tried:
TopFutureDates = CALCULATE (
SUMX(VALUES('Calendar'[Calendar Date]),[Gross Adds]),
KEEPFILTERS (
TOPN (
7,
ALLSELECTED( 'Subscriber Activity'),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
)
)
)This results in a sum total of the whole month not top 7. If I include the date in the Columns pane it shows all of the dates for the whole month. I'm wanting it to return the top 7 values along with the date. Then add 364 days to each date it finds. Thanks!
I finally got the first part to work!
TopDates =
CONCATENATEX(TOPN (
7,
VALUES( 'Calendar'[Calendar Date]),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
), [Calendar Date],CONCATENATE ( "", UNICHAR ( 10 ) ))
Now for future dates I got it to work with:
TopFutureDates =
CONCATENATEX(TOPN (
7,
VALUES( 'Calendar'[Calendar Date]),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
), [Calendar Date]+364,CONCATENATE ( "", UNICHAR ( 10 ) ))
But is there a way to display the Dates and the Gross Adds in the [TopDates] measure above? Right now I've only been able to display either or in the [TopDates] measure.
Measures must return a single scalar value. You can keep using CONCATENATEX but then you need to unpack that text result again yourself. In this case Line Feed is not a useful string separator.
Assuming your data model is wired with Calendar as dimension and Subscriber Activity as fact
TopFutureDates =
TOPN (
7,
ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Calendar Date]),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
)
Or encase it with SELECTCOLUMNS
@lbendlin I get error: Table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected when using:
TopFutureDates =
TOPN (
7,
ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Calendar Date]),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
) Tried this:
TopFutureDates =
SELECTCOLUMNS( TOPN (
7,
ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Calendar Date]),
[Gross Adds],
DESC
) )"Too few arguments were passed to the SelectColumns function. The minimum argument count for the function is 2."
Once you have your top 7 rows, what do you want to do with them next?
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