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pzinsli
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Calculating a Filtered Sum

HI    Let's say I have a table like this, table titled PROFIT AND LOSS DETAILS   ACCT NAME               Line Amount Revenue                      20 COGS                           12 Fringe   ...
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Aron_Moore
Solution Specialist
8 years ago

Try either:

= CALCULATE(SUM('PROFIT AND LOSS DETAIL'[Line Amount]);[ACCT NAME]='Revenue' ; [ACCT NAME]='Cost of Goods Sold')

 

Or the more explicit

= CALCULATE(SUM('PROFIT AND LOSS DETAIL'[Line Amount]);filter('PROFIT AND LOSS DETAIL'; [ACCT NAME]='Revenue' ; [ACCT NAME]='Cost of Goods Sold'))

 

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pzinsli
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

 Thanks for your heIp. tried both.  It seems like the formatting causes the program to try to read "revenue" and Cost of Goods Sold" as tables, not a column result being used as a filter.  It reads error message : could not find table 'revenue'

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    Aron_Moore
    Solution Specialist
    8 years ago

    Odd.


    When you're entering the DAX does the autocomplete help at all?

     

    I did notice your first formula example tries filter[ACCT NAME]='Revenue' which won't work as filter requires a table name not column, but my two example should have correct syntax.