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Helper ICreating an Index column based on a calculated column and a regular column
Hi RH10 ,
How about this:
here the code:
Column = RANKX ( FILTER ( Table, Table[Year (Calculated)] = EARLIER ( Table[Year (Calculated)] ) && Table[Course name] = EARLIER ( Table[Course name] ) ), Table[Date], , ASC , DENSE )For reference:
Let me know if this helps! 🙂
By the way, I would still recommend to solve it in Power Query. You could even create your calculated column in PowerQuery, too. But since your requirement was to do it in DAX, I provided the solution in DAX as well./Tom
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Most Valuable ProfessionalHi RH10 ,
How about this:
here the code:
Column =
RANKX (
FILTER (
Table,
Table[Year (Calculated)] = EARLIER ( Table[Year (Calculated)] ) &&
Table[Course name] = EARLIER ( Table[Course name] )
),
Table[Date],
, ASC
, DENSE
)
For reference:
Let me know if this helps! 🙂
By the way, I would still recommend to solve it in Power Query. You could even create your calculated column in PowerQuery, too. But since your requirement was to do it in DAX, I provided the solution in DAX as well.
/Tom
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Helper IHello tackytechtom,
Thank you for your solution. Unfortunately, it does not work properly and returns an error. My actual data is somewhat messy, as this project that I'm working on is supposed to be updated throughout the year. As of now, there are courses that don't have a specific date and are left blank, or just has a month, or just has the year. I apologize for not making this clear earlier. But since the date column is somewhat random in my dataset, I would like to avoid using it, which is why I created the calculated Year column using DAX functions. So I would like to use that Year column to create the index. Is it possible to do so without using the dates column?
- tackytechtom
Hi RH10 ,
Thanks for your reply.
The calculated year and Course name columns are used to do the grouping of your index. The date column is used to sort within the grouping figuring out which index comes first, second, third etc. If the order does not really matter, it should still work to use the Date column as the sorting column, shouldn't it? Alternatively, you could use another column in your dataset to sort upon. Do you have more columns?
/Tom
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Hello again tackytechtom ,
Using the date column led to repeated index values because of how messy the date column is, so I set the Table[Date] part to another column as you suggested and now it works. Thank you very much!