How to workaround Calculate function ignoring filter context

[Anonymous]

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 sales agent I get the same value for each agent, which is of course wrong. I need the number filtered by sales agent. I've googled and searched these forums but I cant find anything specific to working around this issue. My measure uses calculate so I'm hoping it is a simple substituion for another function but I can't find one that works. Here are my measures.

Measure 1:
AllOrders =
COUNTROWS('Orders')

Measure 2:
OrdersPrevDay =
VAR PDate = LASTDATE('Calendar'[Date])

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

'Calendar'[Date] <= PDate )) + 0

What I'm looking for is 

OrdersPrevDay SalesAgent

6                       Name 1

5                       Name 2

8                       Name 3

7                       Name 4

8                       Name 5

Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks.

[amitchandak]

@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]

@amitchandak @az38 @Greg_Deckler 

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

[az38 · Accepted solution]

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

[Anonymous]

@az38 your solution was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

I will try the other things suggested as well. 

[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous - That sounds like a missing relationship. Not really enough information to go on, please first check if your issue is a common issue listed here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Before-You-Post-Read-This/ba-p/1116882

Also, please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

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