DAX ignore row filter context, keep filters from slicer

[xhurit]

Hello,

I have a visual with table that represents sales on Month-Customer-Product level. I need to create a measure that will display how many products were selected in Product slicer. The tricky part is that I need to show it in the table visual as well but the problem is that when I put my measure in the table, it is being evaulated at row level therefore it is limited to only one product. At first I tried with:

COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( 'DIM Product'[Material Name] ) )

But it always shows 1 for each row. Then I tried:

COUNTROWS ( ALLSELECTED ( 'DIM Product'[Material Name] ) )

and this time it is showing how many products for each customer and month are available in my Fact table. 

What I actually want it to show is 3 in every row, just like in card visual. So as I understand it correctly logic for this measure should be to ignore product filter from visual (row filter) and keep product filter from slicer. I can't use ALL function becasue it will erase selection from slicer as well. Is it possible in DAX to create such a measure?

Thanks in advance for any response!

[lbendlin]

Usually in such a scenario you use disconnected tables to break out of the filter context, and then apply the filters manually via the measure.

[xhurit]

@lbendlin can you elaborate on this? Should I duplicate Product table? What measure should I use then? Which table will be used as a slicer then? 

[v-yingjl · Accepted solution]

Hi @xhurit ,

Sorry for replying late. Based on your description, you need to create a seprate slicer table like this:

Product slicer = DISTINCT('Table'[Product])

Then create your measure to count:

Count = COUNTROWS(ALLSELECTED('Product slicer'[Product]))

To interact with the source table, you can create the relationship between two tables based on the product column and set the table visual filter like this:

Attached a sample file in the below, hopes to help you.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[lbendlin]

Count = COUNTROWS(ALLSELECTED('Product slicer'[Product]))

can be reduced to 

Count = COUNTROWS('Product slicer')