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murkysalt46
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2 years ago

COALESCE inside CALCULATE ignores FILTER

This DAX measure to count rows of table when year is not "2023", will return 0 when the year is "2023" (row context). I would prefer it to be blank as a value of 0 does not make sense for this year. ...
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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hi murkysalt46 ,

Try a branching structure with 2023 returning blank and the rest returning COALESCE(COUNTROWS( Table_A ), 0):

 

VAR __cur_year = SELECTEDVALUE('Table_A'[Year])
VAR __row_count = COUNTROWS('Table_A')
VAR __result = IF(__cur_year <> "2023",  COALESCE(__row_count,0))
RETURN
__result

 

 

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murkysalt46
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2 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to answer Gao. This works!....sometimes. As soon as a slicer is placed on TableA the 0's are filled in for "2023". I'll show with two snippets:

Without interaction of the slicer (blanks for col's with no data):

With interaction (0's for columns with no data):

Added a RAND() factor to obscure the data somewhat.