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Anonymous
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Filtering by RANKX

I am relatively new to DAX and I have been trying to use RANKX to filter the top 3 medalists as seen below.

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This is the result, which is true (Neglecting the total)

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But the moment I try to map the ID to name and gender (both are in another table, see below) it starts to acting in a unexpected way. For Example (is this top 3 for each gender?)

MohamedHesham_7-1630944445319.png

 

 

This is what I am trying to achieve (This was by using Top N in the Filter panel but I want to use DAX instead).

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Data model

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Can you share some sample data so that we could check the formula?

 

Best Regards,

Jay

Anonymous
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Hi, @Anonymous 

This is just a personal project to gain hands on experience using Power BI, so feel free to view the whole file.

I created a report page called "TESTING TOP N" where you can check the formula and what I am trying to achieve.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

 

 

mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

You can try an expression like this one.

 

 

Top 3 Medal Count =
VAR top3 =
    TOPN ( 3ALLSELECTED ( 'Medalists'[ID] ), [Total Medals Medalists], DESC )
VAR result =
    CALCULATE ( [Total Medals Medalists], KEEPFILTERS ( top3 ) )
RETURN
    result

 

Pat

 





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Anonymous
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Sadly, same results @mahoneypat 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous , Try TOPN

example

calculate([total medal medlist],TOPN(3,allselected(Table[ID]),[total medal medlist],DESC), values(Table[ID]))

 

TOPN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVEFp-QiOk&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGaaqV92SBD5X2hk3TMNlHhb&index=42

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Anonymous
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Sadly same results @amitchandak 

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