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How to workaround Calculate function ignoring filter context

Hello,   I have 2 measures. The first one simply counts all orders and the 2nd one does the same thing but for a specific date.   This works fine however if I want to group the second measure by ...
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  • az38's avatar
    az38
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    If I understand you correct try to use ALLEXCEPT() like

    OrdersPrevDay =
VAR PDate = LASTDATE('Calendar'[Date])

RETURN
CALCULATE ( [AllOrders],
ALLEXCEPT('Orders', 'Orders'[SalesAgent]),
FILTER ( ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
'Calendar'[Date] > PDate - 1 &&

'Calendar'[Date] <= PDate )) + 0
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amitchandak
Super User
6 years ago

Anonymous , make sure you have date table joined with you date and try

Last Day = CALCULATE([AllOrders]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Date]=max('Date'[Date])-1))
Last Day = CALCULATE([AllOrders]), previousday('Date'[Date]))

 

refer

https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-day-intelligence-questions-time-intelligence-5-5-5c3243d1f9

 

To get the best of the time intelligence function. Make sure you have a date calendar and it has been marked as the date in model view. Also, join it with the date column of your fact/s. Refer :
https://radacad.com/creating-calendar-table-in-power-bi-using-dax-functions
https://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/creating-date-table-power-bi
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/creating-a-simple-date-table-in-dax/

See if my webinar on Time Intelligence can help: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Webinars-and-Video-Gallery/PowerBI-Time-Intelligence-Calendar-WTD-YTD-LYTD-Week-Over-Week/m-p/1051626#M184


Appreciate your Kudos.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    amitchandak az38 Greg_Deckler 

     

    Thanks for your replies, I will try what you suggested and report back.