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Anonymous
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Calculate function not working as expected

Hi all

 

I have a metric which keeps track of cumulative users against dates, there are 4 users at the end of my period. I have a column which tells me if a customer is a parent or not, IS_PARENT. Type is true/false, and for all records, this field is true. So my expectation is that, when I run the same metric with calculate function and put a filter of IS_PARENT equals true, it should return 4. However it returns zero. when I put false, it still returns 0.

 

It feels like I am splitting something into two halves, and I get zero for both of the halves. In my column there are no blanks, and it is a true/false field, so I do not understand how 4 = 0 + 0 

 

check_measure1 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users])
check_measure2 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users], Accounts[IS_PARENT] =true )
check_measure3 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users], Accounts[IS_PARENT] =false)
 
 
dorukturkoglu_0-1694804309484.png

 

 How can this be possible? Additionally if I change all IS_PARENT values to false, then I get the value 4 for false. 
 
dorukturkoglu_1-1694804448988.png

 

 

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TomMartens
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Hey @Anonymous ,

 

unfortunately some information is missing

  • DAX statement for the measure [Cumulative_Users]
  • data type of the column [IS_Parent]

Also, povide a screenshot of the datamodel that contains the tables and relationships that are affected by the measures.

 

Regards,

Tom



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Anonymous
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Hi @TomMartens , thank you so much for your response. Actually I have simplified my problem

 

I changed IS_PARENT to integer and put random values, 44 and 55.

For both of these measures it is returning zero.

check_measure2 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users]Accounts[IS_PARENT] =44)
check_measure3 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users]Accounts[IS_PARENT] =55)
 
However this measure returns 4
 
check_measure1 = CALCULATE([Cumulative_Users], Accounts[IS_PARENT] =0)
 
Surely I must be missing something here, because the value zero does not even exist as a value in my field 
 
dorukturkoglu_0-1694810089122.png

 

 
 

 

 

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