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AaronJarboe
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Dynamic Percent Calculation Issues

I'm working on a headcount/attrition report with two primary tables: Headcount and Offboardings.  Each table is granular to location, headcount type, and month. 

 

Example of Headcount table (vastly oversimplified - consider many more regions, many more months, etc):

MonthRegionTypeHeadcount
9/1/2017USManagement101
9/1/2017USSecurity64
9/1/2017EuropeManagement110
9/1/2017EuropeSecurity50
10/1/2017USManagement112
10/1/2017USSecurity60

 

Example of Offboarding table (vastly oversimplified - consider many more regions, many more months, etc):

 

MonthRegionTypeOffboardings
9/1/2017USManagement7
9/1/2017USSecurity2
9/1/2017EuropeManagement3
9/1/2017EuropeSecurity12
10/1/2017USManagement2
10/1/2017USSecurity5

 

I'm attempting to put together a chart where bars show total headcount month-over-month, and in overlayed lines show the percentage attrition per month based on a calculation.  In the example above, this would mean in September we had 24 total offboardings and 325 total headcount = 7.38% attrition.  I have created a measure in the Headcount table that performs this calculation: SUM(Offboardings)/SUM(Headcount).  This works just fine when there are no filters applied.

 

The issue lies when I create slicers for Region and for Type.  When I select the slicer for Region, it only applies the filter to the headcount table and not to the offboarding table.  This causes my calculation to get really out of whack (it would consider ALL offboardings regardless of region, divided by only headcount for the selected region, etc.)

 

How can I get the measure to consider the filter for both the numerator and denominator?

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AaronJarboe
Regular Visitor

Turns out my filter was based on only one table and the tables weren't linked with common regions and types.  Fixed by creating a table to link the variables.

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AaronJarboe
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Turns out my filter was based on only one table and the tables weren't linked with common regions and types.  Fixed by creating a table to link the variables.

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