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sjhc1177
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Trouble with TOPN not working

Hi, I have a TOPN that works for listing all brands for each year. But when I try to list what has been sold for a given month and location applying the slicers to the table. The results are for all years.

 

What I would like to do is create a DAX measure that shows me the TOP 25 models sold for a specific LOCATION and MONTH. And the same type of measure but for BRANDS.

 

When I use this measure I get 30-100 results, not 25. So I must need to add something else. I've watched videos, but mabye Excel has issues with TOPn.

 

TOP 25 BRANDS UNITS SOLD:=VAR RankingContext =
VALUES ( 'tblVendor'[VENDOR NAME])
VAR TopNumber = 25
RETURN
CALCULATE (
[SALES UNITS SOLD],
TOPN ( TopNumber, ALL( 'tblVendor'[VENDOR NAME]),[SALES UNITS SOLD] ),
RankingContext
)

 

Thanks

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Anonymous
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"What I would like to do is create a DAX measure that shows me the TOP 25 models sold for a specific LOCATION and MONTH. And the same type of measure but for BRANDS."

 

Taking into account that a measure can only return a value, not a table, this is not possible. A DAX query (which is completely different from a measure) can return TOPN rows from a table on the other hand. So, TOPN is a feature of a filter, not of a measure.

 

Best

D.

AlB
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @sjhc1177 

Can you share the pbix, or a simplified version that reproduces the issue?

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