Conditional statements within a CALCULATE filter

[Kashinoda]

Hello,

I have a simple measure which intersects my fact table with several disconnected tables and works without issue:

Intersect = 
VAR varInter1 = INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[County]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] ))
VAR varInter2 = INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Town]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] ))
RETURN
CALCULATE ( sum('Fact'[Amount]),varInter1, varInter2 ) 

Output:

I would like to dynamically control which types are used via a slicer, making the INTERSECT dynamic.

The code I attempted does not work as CALCULATE is expecting a column filter.

Intersect = 
VAR varSelect1 = IF (HASONEVALUE(Treatas1[Type]), VALUES(Treatas1[Type]))
VAR varInter1 = SWITCH ( TRUE (), varSelect1 = "County", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[County]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] )), 
                                 varSelect1 = "Town", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Town]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] )),
                                 varSelect1 = "Road", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Road]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] )))

VAR varSelect2 = IF (HASONEVALUE(Treatas2[Type]), VALUES(Treatas2[Type]))
VAR varInter2 = SWITCH ( TRUE (), varSelect2 = "County", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[County]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] )), 
                                 varSelect2 = "Town", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Town]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] )),
                                 varSelect2 = "Road", INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Road]),  VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] )))
RETURN
CALCULATE ( sum('Fact'[Amount]), varInter1, varInter2 ) 

I could obviously use a conditional statement before CALCULATE for this example, but the final product will be using up to 10 types with up to 4 combinations which would be an enormous bit of code.

[v-yanjiang-msft]

Hi @Kashinoda ,

I think the error is caused of the SWITCH function can't return a column or table, but only a value.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ kalyj

[amitchandak]

@Kashinoda , Try if this can work

Intersect =
VAR varSelect1 = IF (HASONEVALUE(Treatas1[Type]), VALUES(Treatas1[Type]))
VAR varInter1 = SWITCH ( TRUE (), varSelect1 = "County", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[County] in INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[County]), VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] ))),
varSelect1 = "Town", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[Town] in INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Town]), VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] ))),
varSelect1 = "Road", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[Road] in INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Road]), VALUES ( 'Treatas1'[Values] ))))

VAR varSelect2 = IF (HASONEVALUE(Treatas2[Type]), VALUES(Treatas2[Type]))
VAR varInter2 = SWITCH ( TRUE (), varSelect2 = "County", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[County] in INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[County]), VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] ))),
varSelect2 = "Town", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[Town] in IINTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Town]), VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] ))),
varSelect2 = "Road", filter('Fact', 'Fact'[Road] in INTERSECT(ALL('Fact'[Road]), VALUES ( 'Treatas2'[Values] ))))
RETURN
CALCULATE ( sum('Fact'[Amount]), varInter1, varInter2 )

[Kashinoda]

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately this errors with "The expression refers to multiple columns. Multiple columns cannot be converted to a scalar value".

I uploaded the PBIX here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9watMGIEvBB82nMzP0h3bxJolUD6twl