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I have a column which ranks by student code and date change using the following:
| StudentID | ChangeDate | AcademicYear | Rank |
| Student1 | 01/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 |
| Student1 | 02/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 |
| Student1 | 09/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 3 |
| Student2 | 02/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 |
| Student2 | 11/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 |
| Student2 | 12/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 3 |
| Student2 | 13/10/2020 | 2020/21 | 4 |
| Student3 | 07/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 |
| Student3 | 11/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 |
| Student3 | 16/10/2020 | 2020/21 | 3 |
| Student4 | 07/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 |
| Student4 | 08/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 |
What I would like is to add additional criteria in order to restart the ranking wherever there is a change of AcademicYear for each student, so the table would look as follows (changes highlighted in red):
| StudentID | ChangeDate | AcademicYear | Rank | NEWRank |
| Student1 | 01/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 | 1 |
| Student1 | 02/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 | 2 |
| Student1 | 09/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 3 | 3 |
| Student2 | 02/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 | 1 |
| Student2 | 11/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 | 2 |
| Student2 | 12/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 3 | 3 |
| Student2 | 13/10/2020 | 2020/21 | 4 | 1 |
| Student3 | 07/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 | 1 |
| Student3 | 11/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 | 2 |
| Student3 | 16/10/2020 | 2020/21 | 3 | 1 |
| Student4 | 07/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 1 | 1 |
| Student4 | 08/10/2020 | 2019/20 | 2 | 2 |
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Hi @Anonymous
Rank V2 =
RANKX (
FILTER (
Table1,
Table1[StudentID] = EARLIER ( Table1[StudentID] )
&& Table1[AcademicYear] = EARLIER ( Table1[AcademicYear] )
),
Table1[ChangeDate],
,
ASC,
DENSE
)
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The following measure will do it @Anonymous I believe.
New Rank =
VAR varStudentID =
MAX( 'Table'[StudentID] )
VAR varAcademicYear =
MAX( 'Table'[AcademicYear] )
VAR Result =
RANKX(
FILTER(
ALL( 'Table' ),
'Table'[StudentID] = varStudentID
&& 'Table'[AcademicYear] = varAcademicYear
),
CALCULATE(
SELECTEDVALUE( 'Table'[ChangeDate] )
),
,
ASC,
DENSE
)
RETURN
Result
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MCSA: BI ReportingHi @Anonymous
Rank V2 =
RANKX (
FILTER (
Table1,
Table1[StudentID] = EARLIER ( Table1[StudentID] )
&& Table1[AcademicYear] = EARLIER ( Table1[AcademicYear] )
),
Table1[ChangeDate],
,
ASC,
DENSE
)
Please mark the question solved when done and consider giving a thumbs up if posts are helpful.
Contact me privately for support with any larger-scale BI needs, tutoring, etc.
Cheers
@Anonymous try this
Rank = RANKX( FILTER( 'Rank', 'Rank'[StudentID] = EARLIER( 'Rank'[StudentID] ) && 'Rank'[AcademicYear] = EARLIER('Rank'[AcademicYear])), 'Rank'[ChangeDate] , , ASC, DENSE)
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