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How to do custom rounding in DAX?

Hi all,   Here is a Christmas brain cracker for our DAX specialists! I want to create a DAX measure that calculates the percentage of values per category in a table to the total of that table, wit...
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3 years ago

Anonymous I have modified things to be more in line with your data and requirements. See if this works. Updated PBIX is attached below signature.

Measure 2 = 
    VAR __Cat2 = MAX('Table'[Category2])
    VAR __Table = 
        GENERATE(
            SUMMARIZE(
                FILTER(ALLSELECTED('Table'), [Category2] = __Cat2),
                'Table'[Category1],'Table'[Category2],"Value",MAX([Percentage])),
                VAR __Value = [Value]
                VAR __RD = ROUNDDOWN(__Value,0)
                VAR __Decimal = __Value - __RD
            RETURN
                ROW(
                    "RD", __RD,
                    "Decimal", __Decimal
                )
        )
    VAR __MaxDecimal = MAXX(__Table,[Decimal])
    VAR __MaxCategory = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Decimal] = __MaxDecimal),[Category1])
    VAR __2ndMaxDecimal = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Category1] <> __MaxCategory), [Decimal])
    VAR __2ndMaxCategory = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Category1] <> __MaxCategory && [Decimal] = __2ndMaxDecimal),[Category1])
    VAR __Category = MAX('Table'[Category1])
    VAR __Result = 
        IF(
            __Category = __MaxCategory || __Category = __2ndMaxCategory, 
            ROUNDUP(MAX([Percentage]),0), 
            ROUNDDOWN(MAX([Percentage]),0)
        )
RETURN
    __Result //CONCATENATEX(__Table, [Category1]&":"&[Category2]&":"&[Value]&":"&[RD]&":"&[Decimal],UNICHAR(10)&UNICHAR(13))

 

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3 years ago

Brilliant, it works, also in my 'real' dataset! Thanks a lot Greg_Deckler , you're a star! 🙂

And also thanks to all other contributors bolfri ppm1 parry2k , you helped me shape my thoughts.

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    Anonymous
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    3 years ago

    Greg_Deckler oops I noticed an error - it looks like the result now always rounds up two values, even if only rounding up one value should have been done, see example below for category Z... which should have been 50 + 24 + 16 + 10. Any thoughts on this?

     

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      Greg_Deckler
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      3 years ago

      Anonymous Easy fix for that, see below and attached PBIX.

      Measure 2 = 
    VAR __Cat2 = MAX('Table'[Category2])
    VAR __Table = 
        GENERATE(
            SUMMARIZE(
                FILTER(ALLSELECTED('Table'), [Category2] = __Cat2),
                'Table'[Category1],'Table'[Category2],"Value",MAX([Percentage])),
                VAR __Value = [Value]
                VAR __RD = ROUNDDOWN(__Value,0)
                VAR __Decimal = __Value - __RD
            RETURN
                ROW(
                    "RD", __RD,
                    "Decimal", __Decimal
                )
        )
    VAR __MaxDecimal = MAXX(__Table,[Decimal])
    VAR __MaxCategory = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Decimal] = __MaxDecimal),[Category1])
    VAR __2ndMaxDecimal = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Category1] <> __MaxCategory), [Decimal])
    VAR __2ndMaxCategory = MAXX(FILTER(__Table, [Category1] <> __MaxCategory && [Decimal] = __2ndMaxDecimal),[Category1])
    VAR __Category = MAX('Table'[Category1])
    VAR __SumDown = SUMX(__Table, [RD])
    VAR __Result = 
        SWITCH(__SumDown,
            99, 
                IF(
                    __Category = __MaxCategory, 
                    ROUNDUP(MAX([Percentage]),0), 
                    ROUNDDOWN(MAX([Percentage]),0)
                ),
            98, 
                IF(
                    __Category = __MaxCategory || __Category = __2ndMaxCategory, 
                    ROUNDUP(MAX([Percentage]),0), 
                    ROUNDDOWN(MAX([Percentage]),0)
                )
        )
RETURN
    __Result //CONCATENATEX(__Table, [Category1]&":"&[Category2]&":"&[Value]&":"&[RD]&":"&[Decimal],UNICHAR(10)&UNICHAR(13))
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        Anonymous
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        3 years ago

        Great, that worked! Thanks so much, very much appreciated 🙂

        And I added an alternative for SWITCH in case nothing needs to be rounded (in the unlikely case all are numbers with 0 decimals)