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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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Measure or calculation with user input (slicer or filter)

dear PBI gurus

 

am struggling to find the easier way to create a calculation / measure with a dynamic input from user.

 

my starting table is as follows

item
item description
FY
Month
dimension
Quantity
ABC
ABC-Description
2021
1
Ordered
55
ABC
ABC-Description
2021
1
forecast current month
60
ABC
ABC-Description
2021
1
forecast m-1
70
ABC
ABC-Description
2021
1
forecast m-2
70
ABC
ABC-Description
2021
1
forecast m-3
100

 

 

I need, for each item, to calculate a formula with "ordered" as fix input and variable selection of "corecast m-*". The complete formula is = ABS(Ordered - Forecast M-*)/(ABS(Ordered)+ABS(Forecast M-*)) and I would like to give possibility for each user to switch from "forecast m-1" to "forecast m-3" using a slicer or a filter.

 

Ending result would be a table like

 

ITEM    Item Descriptoion     Ordered      Fcast M-* (sselected by user)     Formula result

Need Help
  • v-yanjiang-msft's avatar
    v-yanjiang-msft
    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    Sorry for the late reply, I modify my sample to contain more items.

    Then modify the formula like this:

    Ordered =
VAR _T =
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Table',
        'Table'[Item],
        "Ordered",
            MAXX (
                FILTER (
                    ALL ( 'Table' ),
                    'Table'[Item] = MAX ( 'Table'[Item] )
                        && 'Table'[dimension] = "Ordered"
                ),
                'Table'[Quantity]
            )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX ( _T, [Ordered] )

    Fcast M-* =
VAR _T =
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Table',
        'Table'[Item],
        "Fcast M-",
            MAXX (
                FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[dimension] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[dimension] ) ),
                'Table'[Quantity]
            )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX ( _T, [Fcast M-] )

    Formula result =
VAR _T =
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Table',
        'Table'[Item],
        "Formula resut",
            ABS ( [Ordered] - [Fcast M-*] )
                / ( ABS ( [Ordered] ) + ABS ( [Fcast M-*] ) )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX ( _T, [Formula resut] )

    Get the correct result:

    I attach my sample below for your reference.

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ kalyj

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6 Replies

  • v-yanjiang-msft's avatar
    v-yanjiang-msft
    Icon for Community Support rankCommunity Support
    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    According to your description, here's my solution.

    You can only use measures, because the value of calculated columns can't be affected by slicer. Create three measures.

    Ordered =
MAXX (
    FILTER (
        ALL ( 'Table' ),
        'Table'[Item] = MAX ( 'Table'[Item] )
            && 'Table'[dimension] = "Ordered"
    ),
    'Table'[Quantity]
)

    Fcast M-* =
MAXX (
    FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[dimension] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[dimension] ) ),
    'Table'[Quantity]
)

    Formula result =
ABS ( [Ordered] - [Fcast M-*] )
    / ( ABS ( [Ordered] ) + ABS ( [Fcast M-*] ) )

    Get the result.

    I attach my sample below for your reference.

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ kalyj

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    3 years ago

    thanks v-yanjiang-msft 

     

    it works greatly. The only issue I've seen is that - since by table has multiple entry / groups - it has a strange behavior when I activate the total at the bottom of each column - meaning to calculate the same on aggregate level (imagine I need to aggregate the item per product family or per customer.

     

    Is there anything I can do to allow also the total to display the sum of all the rows in a column correctly?

    thanks

    • v-yanjiang-msft's avatar
      v-yanjiang-msft
      Icon for Community Support rankCommunity Support
      3 years ago

      Hi Anonymous ,

      Sorry I'm not very clear what you mean. When I turn on the total, it gets the result.

      If your real sample is more complicated, would you like to expain more or give an example?

       

      Best Regards,
      Community Support Team _ kalyj

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        3 years ago

        sorry, I was too quick in answering 🙂

        so, an example of my dataset is as follows

         

        the single rows are calculated correctly, however the total instead of being the sum of all entries shows only the max value (it seems), I would rather see the sum of all "Ordered" and "Forecast". Is it possible by adding a "SUM" operation in the formula?

         

        thanks for your king feedback

         

        Best regards

        Moia79