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Measure returning correct total but row value is incorrect
I have a dataset with multiyear data. See sample below.
| Year | Region | Employees | Primary Key |
| 2020 | West | Employee1 | 2020WestEmployee1 |
| 2020 | East | Employee2 | 2020EastEmployee2 |
| 2020 | West | Employee3 | 2020WestEmployee3 |
| 2020 | South | Employee4 | 2020SouthEmployee4 |
| 2020 | South | Employee5 | 2020SouthEmployee5 |
| 2021 | North | Employee6 | 2021NorthEmployee6 |
| 2021 | North | Employee7 | 2021NorthEmployee7 |
| 2021 | East | Employee8 | 2021EastEmployee8 |
| 2021 | West | Employee9 | 2021WestEmployee9 |
| 2021 | South | Employee10 | 2021SouthEmployee10 |
| 2022 | North | Employee11 | 2022NorthEmployee11 |
| 2022 | North | Employee12 | 2022NorthEmployee12 |
| 2022 | East | Employee13 | 2022EastEmployee13 |
| 2022 | West | Employee14 | 2022WestEmployee14 |
| 2022 | South | Employee15 | 2022SouthEmployee15 |
| 2022 | West | Employee16 | 2022WestEmployee16 |
| 2023 | North | Employee17 | 2023NorthEmployee17 |
| 2023 | East | Employee18 | 2023EastEmployee18 |
| 2023 | West | Employee19 | 2023WestEmployee19 |
| 2023 | South | Employee20 | 2023SouthEmployee20 |
| 2023 | West | Employee21 | 2023WestEmployee21 |
| 2024 | North | Employee22 | 2024NorthEmployee22 |
| 2024 | East | Employee23 | 2024EastEmployee23 |
| 2024 | West | Employee24 | 2024WestEmployee24 |
| 2024 | South | Employee25 | 2024SouthEmployee25 |
| 2024 | East | Employee26 | 2024EastEmployee26 |
| 2024 | North | Employee27 | 2024NorthEmployee27 |
With this dataset, I have a matrix viz that pulls in Region for Rows; Year in columns; measure (count-historical = distinctcount('data'[primary key]). This matrix is formatted as shown in the table below presenting the count of employees by year/region.
Matrix A
| Region | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| North | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| South | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| East | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| West | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
No issues here. Now, I have another matrix with regions in Rows and a measure in Values. There's a year slicer on this page that allows filtering by a range of years. I would like for the measure to pull in the employee count for the min(year) - e.g., if the slicer is set to 2020-2022, the values for 2020 will populate. The dax for this measure is:
The issue is that when the calculated value is 0, the measure populates a value from an adjacent year and not "0", but the total is correct... Does anyone have insight as to why this is happening?
| Region | Min | Max |
| North | 2 (should be 0) | 2 |
| South | 2 | 1 |
| East | 1 | 1 |
| West | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | 6 |
2 Replies
- v-weiyan1-msft
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Hi otto-user101 ,
Based on the example and description you provided, please try code as below to create measure.
Min = VAR _mintyear = MINX ( ALLSELECTED('Table'),'Table'[Year] ) VAR _count = CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Table'[Primary Key] ), FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Region] = MAX ( 'Table'[Region] ) && 'Table'[Year] = _mintyear ) ) RETURN IF ( _count = BLANK (), 0, _count )Min_Result = IF ( HASONEVALUE ( 'Table'[Region] ), [Min], SUMX ( VALUES ( 'Table'[Region] ), [Min] ) )Max = VAR _maxyear = MAXX ( ALLSELECTED('Table'),'Table'[Year] ) VAR _count = CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Table'[Primary Key] ), FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Region] = MAX ( 'Table'[Region] ) && 'Table'[Year] = _maxyear ) ) RETURN IF ( _count = BLANK (), 0, _count )Max_Result = IF ( HASONEVALUE ( 'Table'[Region] ), [Max], SUMX ( VALUES ( 'Table'[Region] ), [Max] ) )When the slicer is set to 2020-2022, Result is as below.
Best Regards,
Yulia Yan
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Hi v-weiyan1-msft thanks for your response. The dax you provided for Min (and Max) populates 0 when the count is blank.
There's something I didn't include in my initial post - the regions are grouped and with the new dax, the subtotals and totals are inaccurate, and I'm looking to achieve what's shown in the table below.Region 2020 2021 2022 Group A 2 3 3 North 0 2 2 South 2 1 1 Group B 3 2 3 East 1 1 1 West 2 1 2 Total 5 5 6 Can you assist with this? Much appreciated!