Issues with selectable data range of a slicer

[johnyip]

Hello all, I have an issue creating a slicer whose selectable values are dynamic based on the data selected.

As a brief introduction, the dashboard aims to display the sales figures of different companies based on the year and month (YYYYMM) selected. I deliberately make the sales of Company A and Company C identical for the date-month 202012 as the test case.

The Ranking slicer aims to confine the range of selectable values based on the rank of the data displayed by the dashboard. For example, in 202012, the slicer is supposed to allow users to slide from the values of 1 to 4 only (because two companies ranks the same).

The DAX I used to confine the values available in the Ranking slicer is as follows:

Ranking_SLICER FILTER =

VAR MinValue = MINX(ALLSELECTED(Sales[Company]),RANKX(ALLSELECTED(Sales[Company]),[Monthly Sales],,DESC,DENSE))

VAR MaxValue = MAXX(ALLSELECTED(Sales[Company]),RANKX(ALLSELECTED(Sales[Company]),[Monthly Sales],,DESC,DENSE))

VAR CurrentSlicerValue = SELECTEDVALUE('Ranking range'[Ranking])

RETURN

IF(CurrentSlicerValue >= MinValue && CurrentSlicerValue <= MaxValue,1,0)

The logic is totally perfect but it just fails to work.

Ironically, when I hardcode the selected date in [Monthly Sales] as 

CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales]),Sales[Date]=202012), the Ranking filter can confine the values correctly, but the [Monthly Sales] is then not listened to the slicer, which is totally not preferred.

When I mean to make the [Monthly Sales] listen to the date slicer, I use this DAX: 

CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales]),Sales[Date]=SELECTEDVALUE('Time filter'[Date])), but this renders the Ranking slicer confines the user to slide through the range of 1 to 1 only, failing to comply with the logic I defined.

So, is there any workaround for this issue? I tried using different tricks but it just won't work. I will be very glad if I can seek an answer here. Thanks a lot.

The download link of my file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xh-rd9MYf4RqYrt6tDCfaQGSKzBhWaKB/view?usp=sharing

[Anonymous]

Hi @johnyip ,

Please try to click your Date slicer and then use Edit interaction function to change the interactions from None to Filter. Then rank slicer works.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @johnyip ,

This issue has been confirmed as a known issue internally. Internal ICM ID: 282363959

Please be patient to wait for fixing. If there is any news, I will update it here.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[Anonymous]

Hi @johnyip ,

I think your measure is correct. I suggest you to use list kind slicer directly. There may be something wrong in Slicer between function. Or you can create two list kind slicer , one show min value you need and another one you select max value you need.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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