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Anonymous
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Don't sum/calculate in measures when adjacent column is blank

Hello,

 

So I have an issue where a target field is populated before the sales data arrives at the start of the month.  This is skewing my results.  In a table this isn't too much of a problem because you can just filter out the row using 'is not blank' tick box and it will re-calculate the data.

 

Sales MTDBudget MTDVarianceVariance%
7090-20-22.2
5070-20-28.6
2560-35-58.3
 55-55-100.0
145275-130-47.27

 

My question is about the measures which I drop into cards.  How do you stop it counting the blank rows?  If the Sales MTD column/row is blank, I don't want it to add in values from the budget or variance columns into my measures either.  This is my DAX:

 

Sales MTD: 

CALCULATE(TOTALMTD([SQLSales],DateDimension[Date]),DateDimension[Date]<=TODAY())
 
Budget MTD: 
[Target MTD]*(DIVIDE([Workdays Passed CM],[Work Days CM],0))
 
Variance%MTD =
VAR __BASELINE_VALUE = [Budget MTD Calc]
VAR __VALUE_TO_COMPARE = [SQLSalesMTD]
RETURN
    IF(
        NOT ISBLANK(__VALUE_TO_COMPARE),
        DIVIDE(__VALUE_TO_COMPARE - __BASELINE_VALUE, __BASELINE_VALUE)
    )
 
VarianceSQLMTD = ([SQLSalesMTD]-[Budget MTD Calc])

 

Any ideas would be really welcome.  Thank you.

 

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Anonymous
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HI @Anonymous ,

Can you please share some sample data for test?

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