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nwesterhuijs
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Calculated Column to Measure - RANKX & EARLIER

I have a calculated column, that I would like to implement as measure: 

 

 

 

Rank = 
RANKX (
    FILTER (
        Boston_All,
        EARLIER (Boston_All[Cat]) = Boston_All[Cat]
    ),
    Boston_All[Index],
    ,
    ASC
)-1

 

 

 

 

And for calculated columns this does the following: 

 

INDEX         Cat         Rank

1                   1             0

2                   1             1

3                   1             2

4                   1             3

5                   1             4

6                   2             0

7                   2             1

8                   2             2

9                   3             0

10                 3             1

 

Now if a filter on a visual is applied, I would like it to recalculate the ranking, something a Calculated Column does not do. Measures do do this, but it has issues with EARLIER. Now in the article below somebody has found a way around it using a SUMX example, but I fail to modify it so it can be used for my RANKX example. 

 

https://javierguillen.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/can-earlier-be-used-in-dax-measures/

Anybody any ideas?

Thanks, Norbert 

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Fowmy
Super User
Super User

@nwesterhuijs 

You can use the following measure:

Rank = 

VAR __Source = ALLSELECTED( Boston_All[Index] , Boston_All[Cat] )
VAR __Result = 
    RANK(
        DENSE,
        __Source,
        ORDERBY( Boston_All[Index],ASC , Boston_All[Cat], ASC ),,
        PARTITIONBY( Boston_All[Cat] )
    ) - 1
RETURN
   IF( ISINSCOPE(Boston_All[Index] ) ,  __Result )

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Fowmy
Super User
Super User

@nwesterhuijs 

You can use the following measure:

Rank = 

VAR __Source = ALLSELECTED( Boston_All[Index] , Boston_All[Cat] )
VAR __Result = 
    RANK(
        DENSE,
        __Source,
        ORDERBY( Boston_All[Index],ASC , Boston_All[Cat], ASC ),,
        PARTITIONBY( Boston_All[Cat] )
    ) - 1
RETURN
   IF( ISINSCOPE(Boston_All[Index] ) ,  __Result )

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@Fowmy Thank you for your shift reply.

Although I do not get an error, it also does not seem to calculate anything either.

 

I do not have the rights to link a file here, so I have dropped a test file containing the calculated column as well as the measure on my OneDrive (link below). 

 

Test_Rank_Measure.pbix

Your assistance is highly appreciated as well as any further suggestions that I can try to resolve it.   

Thanks, Norbert 

@nwesterhuijs 

You need to add the Index column to the table visual:

Fowmy_0-1701695625948.png

 

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@Fowmy Thanks for all your help!

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