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mauko
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5 years ago
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Cumulative sum even accross filtered data

We would like to analyze employee overtime with cumulative sum which would take into account all data even if they are filtered out by a slicer.  What I mean is that if an employee registers worktime...
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    MFelix
    5 years ago

    Hi mauko 

     

    You need to use a measure and use CALCULATE and ALL to get the final result. something similar to:

    Total Hours = CALCULATE (SUM(Table[Hours]), FILTER (ALL(Table[Date]),Table[Date] <= MAX (Table[Date]) )
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mauko
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5 years ago

Obrigado Miguel,

That worked.  I don't know what I was doing wrong before as I do think I already tried something like that.  One thing I find very difficult with PowerBI is to debug the measures...

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MFelix
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5 years ago

Hi mauko ,

 

The debugging of measures can imply to have concatanex, checking the filtering of tables,ca n be done in several different ways but one approach that I always try to follow is to filter out the information using the external tools liem DAXSTUDIO and TABULAREDITOR.