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MontherKH
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Adding values in RANKX Function

I have Employees table, and I want to create a measure that ranks them by adding the values of Salary and Bonus together then rank them, Salary and Bonus are columns in the table.

 

I wrote this DAX:

Profit Rank = RANKX('Employee Listing',[Salary (USD)] + [Bonus], , DESC)

 

and Power BI gives me this error:

The value for 'Salary (USD)' cannot be determined. Either the column doesn't exist, or there is no current row for this column.
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MahyarTF
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Hi

Is there some reason you created the Measure instead of the calculated column ?

your code is worked if you use it as a column.

 

Appreciate your Kudos and please select it if it is helps you

Mahyartf

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menglaro78
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HI @MontherKH ,

I suggest this:

I think your columns Salary and Bonus are not saved in the same table Employee Listing.

So you can write Sum(Table[Salary USD]) + Sum(Table[Bonus]) in your Rankx expression or create a explicit measure before.

Furthermore i suggest to use ALL(Employee Listing'[Employee])

 

Profit Rank = RANKX(ALL('Employee Listing'[Employee]),sum('Table'[Salary (USD)]) + sum('Table'[Bonus]), , DESC)

 

RANKX - DAX Guide

 

Marco

They ARE in the same table, and I tried your formula but it gives all the employees rank 1

Are you using the all function?

 

Profit Rank = RANKX(ALL('Employee Listing'[Employee]),sum('Table'[Salary (USD)]) + sum('Table'[Bonus]), , DESC)

MahyarTF
Memorable Member
Memorable Member

Hi

Is there some reason you created the Measure instead of the calculated column ?

your code is worked if you use it as a column.

 

Appreciate your Kudos and please select it if it is helps you

Mahyartf

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