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Need a bit of help this morning on a calculated column I'm working on. I'm recieving the error message A Circular Dependency was detected
Column A first calculated revenue with the forumula below.
Computed Rev = ('Revenue'[clientBillRate]*'Revenue'[October Billable Hours])Column B is then calculated for costs using the formula below
Computed Costs = CALCULATE(SUMX('Revenue', 'Revenue'[October Billable Hours]*' Revenue'[payRate]))*1+'Revenue'[Cost Burden]
Finally to find the Spread I attempt to use
GM Spread = Computer Rev - Computed CostsWhere I then recieve the A Circular Dependency was detected error. What am I missing here. I know it's something simple I've overlooked for these calculations.
Thanks!
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Your Computed Costs measure looks odd to me. Can you simplify it to this?
Computed Costs =
( 'Revenue'[October Billable Hours] * ' Revenue'[payRate] ) + 'Revenue'[Cost Burden]
Your Computed Costs measure looks odd to me. Can you simplify it to this?
Computed Costs =
( 'Revenue'[October Billable Hours] * ' Revenue'[payRate] ) + 'Revenue'[Cost Burden]
Yep that worked, by simplifying it. that gives me the same output for the Computed Costs
Great. If you use that simplification instead, I don't think you'll get the circular reference error.
That did it thank you!
@LyonsBI_BRL ,Can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/avoiding-circular-dependency-errors-in-dax/
Hey @amitchandak,
Yes I can provide some sample data here
Cost Burden IDclient BillRate payRate Computed Rev Computed Costs
| 0.3826 | 2972 | $59.00 | $30.00 | $9,912 | $5,040.38 |
| 0.0225 | 4433 | $100.00 | $50.00 | $16,800 | $8,400.02 |
| 0.2172 | 4534 | $95.00 | $60.00 | $15,960 | $10,080.22 |
| 0.3266 | 4774 | $85.00 | $50.00 | $14,280 | $8,400.33 |
| 0.1958 | 7281 | $85.00 | $50.00 | $14,280 | $8,400.20 |
| 0.3855 | 7340 | $62.00 | $34.00 | $10,416 | $5,712.39 |
| 0.2513 | 10006 | $120.00 | $68.00 | $20,160 | $11,424.25 |
| 0.2563 | 11005 | $113.00 | $68.00 | $18,984 | $11,424.26 |
| 0.2933 | 11297 | $125.00 | $77.00 | $21,000 | $12,936.29 |
| 0.2696 | 11802 | $90.00 | $53.01 | $15,120 | $8,905.95 |
| 0.3713 | 12687 | $83.00 | $45.00 | $13,944 | $7,560.37 |
| 0.2427 | 14270 | $90.00 | $55.00 | $15,120 | $9,240.24 |
| 0.2582 | 15679 | $175.00 | $115.38 | $29,400 | $19,384.10 |
| 0.2627 | 15853 | $95.00 | $60.13 | $15,960 | $10,102.10 |
| 0.3015 | 16776 | $76.98 | $46.00 | $12,932.64 | $7,728.30 |
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