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Banistas
Helper I
5 years ago
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Create measure excluding current selection

Hi,   I want to create a measure that will make a calculation excluding the current selection from it.   Easier to explain with a simple example, so here I go.    Let's assume I have the follow...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hello @Banistas

    Something along these lines using the EXCEPT function should work, assuming you have a [Number of Pets] measure:

    Number of Pets Excluding You =
CALCULATE (
    [Number of Pets],
    EXCEPT ( ALL ( YourTable[Persons] ), VALUES ( YourTable[Persons] ) )
)

    Using ALL ( YourTable[Persons] ) ensures that you always get the total of all people other than filtered people. You can consider ALLSELECTED if there is an external filter on the people you want to use instead of everyone in the dataset.

    Best regards

    Owen

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hello @Banistas

Something along these lines using the EXCEPT function should work, assuming you have a [Number of Pets] measure:

Number of Pets Excluding You =
CALCULATE (
    [Number of Pets],
    EXCEPT ( ALL ( YourTable[Persons] ), VALUES ( YourTable[Persons] ) )
)

Using ALL ( YourTable[Persons] ) ensures that you always get the total of all people other than filtered people. You can consider ALLSELECTED if there is an external filter on the people you want to use instead of everyone in the dataset.

Best regards

Owen

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Banistas
Helper I
5 years ago

Thanks @OwenAugerFon. This does exactly what I needed, and can be applied for cases where there are calculations other than SUM which is brilliant.