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I have two tables:
Milestone
| Milestone Title | Finish |
| Start | 1/1/2024 |
| Milestone1 | 2/1/2024 |
| Milestone2 | 3/1/2024 |
| Finish | 4/1/2024 |
StandardMilestone
| StandardMilestoneTitle | MilestoneSort |
| Start | 1 |
| Milestone1 | 2 |
| Finish | 3 |
There's a relationship between these two (StandardMilestoneTitle --> Milestone Title), though you'll notice that not every value for Milestone Title has a matching value in StandardMilestone. I want to add a column to Milestone with the MilestoneSort value for the row in StandardMilestone where Title = "Start." In other words:
| Milestone Title | Finish | StartSort |
| Start | 1/1/2024 | 1 |
| Milestone1 | 2/1/2024 | 1 |
| Milestone2 | 3/1/2024 | 1 |
| Finish | 4/1/2024 | 1 |
What I'm getting is this, where only the row in Milestone where Title = Start gets the calculation:
| Milestone Title | Finish | StartSort |
| Start | 1/1/2024 | 1 |
| Milestone1 | 2/1/2024 | |
| Milestone2 | 3/1/2024 | |
| Finish | 4/1/2024 |
Here's my formula:
CALCULATE( MIN( 'StandardMilestone'[MilestoneSort] ), FILTER( ALL('StandardMilestone'), 'StandardMilestone'[StandardMilestoneTitle] = "Start") )
@jsangerman I can't seem to replicate this. See attached PBIX below signature.
Turns out I had the relationship cross-filter going in both directions. When I switch it to one direction, it works as expected.
However, when I tried the same thing on your example, it didn't work the same. The calculated column works as expected no matter the cross-filter direction. There's actually one difference I hadn't thought of, but is causing the changing behavior. My StandardMilestone table actually looks like this:
StandardMilestone
| StandardMilestoneTitle | MilestoneTitle | MilestoneSort |
| StandardStart | Start | 1 |
| StandardMilestone1 | Milestone1 | 2 |
| StandardFinish | Finish | 3 |
The relationship is MilestoneTitle --> Milestone Title, and the column formula is:
CALCULATE( MIN( 'StandardMilestone'[MilestoneSort] ), FILTER( ALL('StandardMilestone'), 'StandardMilestone'[StandardMilestoneTitle] = "StandardStart") )
I redid your file to match this: Milestones.pbix
Can you explain why it doesn't work when the cross-filtering goes in both directions?
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