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Hi,
I've been stuck on the following problem and hoping someone can help me on this.
I have a data table which has the following columns:
Project Name - String
Anonymise - Boolean
Location - String
Area - Number
using a slicer, the user is able to click on the project name and then select yes or no if that name should be anonymised.
I would like to anonymise the project name and then sort the selection according to area to assign a chronological letter.
Eg.
This is the data table
| Project Name | Area |
| Project A | 10 |
| Project B | 23 |
| Project C | 43 |
| Project D | 5 |
| Project E | 1 |
| Project F | 3 |
| Project G | 4 |
I have selected Project A, E , F, G for a bar chart and have selected the names are anonomised, therefore the output I'm looking for is
Is this possible?
Any advice would be much appricated.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @Fali324 ,
Please try:
First create a new table:
Anonymise Name = ADDCOLUMNS(GENERATESERIES(0,DISTINCTCOUNT('Table'[Project Name]),1),"Name",UNICHAR(UNICODE("A")+[Value]))
Output:
Then create a field parameter:
Add a new column to the parameter table:
Boolean = IF([Parameter Order]=0,"False","True")
Output:
Create a slicer:
Apply the measure to the column chart:
Measure =
var _a = ADDCOLUMNS('Table',"Index",RANKX('Table',[Area],CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Area])),ASC))
var _b = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Area]),FILTER(_a,[Index]=SELECTEDVALUE('Anonymise Name'[Value])+1))
var _c = SUM('Table'[Area])
return
IF(SELECTEDVALUE(Parameter[Boolean])="True"&&ISFILTERED(Parameter[Boolean]),_b,_c)
Final output:
Best Regards,
Jianbo Li
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Hi
How to make this solution work if we have multiple entries in the dataset for different institution.
Thanks
Ekam
Hi @Fali324 ,
Please try:
First create a new table:
Anonymise Name = ADDCOLUMNS(GENERATESERIES(0,DISTINCTCOUNT('Table'[Project Name]),1),"Name",UNICHAR(UNICODE("A")+[Value]))
Output:
Then create a field parameter:
Add a new column to the parameter table:
Boolean = IF([Parameter Order]=0,"False","True")
Output:
Create a slicer:
Apply the measure to the column chart:
Measure =
var _a = ADDCOLUMNS('Table',"Index",RANKX('Table',[Area],CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Area])),ASC))
var _b = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Area]),FILTER(_a,[Index]=SELECTEDVALUE('Anonymise Name'[Value])+1))
var _c = SUM('Table'[Area])
return
IF(SELECTEDVALUE(Parameter[Boolean])="True"&&ISFILTERED(Parameter[Boolean]),_b,_c)
Final output:
Best Regards,
Jianbo Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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