Filtering a visual to display data for dates prior to min date of date range filter

Hi Usefulinfo - To achieve this, you can avoid using REMOVEFILTERS by focusing on maintaining the date context from the filter visual. Instead of removing filters, we can use ALLSELECTED with a condition to include only dates earlier than the minimum selected date in the filter

ShowApplication =
VAR MinFilterDate =
CALCULATE(
MIN('Date Table'[Date]),
ALLSELECTED('Date Table')
)
RETURN
CALCULATE(
COUNTROWS('App'),
KEEPFILTERS('App'[Received_Date] < MinFilterDate)
)

hope this gives you correct app count with date filter. please check

Usefulinfo since you use ReceivedDate as Key column for Calendar relationship, modify your solution to this:

CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS('Sheet2'),
    DateTable[Date] < StartDate, -- the change is here, using Date column from calendar instead RecievedDate
    -- and also here, since it's different table you have to add these filter as new parameter, so split by comma
    ISBLANK('Sheet2'[Despatch_Date]) &&
    'Sheet2'[Status] <> "close"
    )

Yes, I have all these details. I have tested again and its working fine. 

Thank you so much for your help.