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8 years ago
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Make measure ignore specific filter

This should be simple but I just can’t solve it :) I have a report page with several filters and a measure Amounts = SUM(Table.Amount). Now I’d like Amounts to ignore just one of the filters, a Page...
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  • AkhilAshok's avatar
    AkhilAshok
    7 years ago

    This is not really an issue. It is clearly explained in this article from Alberto. It is happening because of Auto Exist feature in DAX.

    Besides, creating a seperate dimension table is not really a workaround, but rather a best practice. A Star Schema is always considered best when working with Power BI Datamodel. This is what makes it more powerful!

     

     

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AkhilAshok
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7 years ago

This is not really an issue. It is clearly explained in this article from Alberto. It is happening because of Auto Exist feature in DAX.

Besides, creating a seperate dimension table is not really a workaround, but rather a best practice. A Star Schema is always considered best when working with Power BI Datamodel. This is what makes it more powerful!

 

 

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

I have created a different distinct values table for Month+Year, and used ALL( Table2[Month+Year]) in CALCULATE function. Still doesn't work for me! any other solution I can try out?