Measure to indicate Active/Excluded people

[fabiocovre]

Hi,

I need to create a measure to indicate if a person is active or excluded of the data. To that, I have a census fact table where exists the users name being repeated every month. What I want to do is case a user don't be present in the last month of this fact table, I indicate him as Excluded, otherwise, she remains Active.

Above is an example what I did. The highlighted user is "Excluded" because the last time she appeared in the census fact table was on nov/2021.

The problem that I'm facing is when I filter a specific month, for example sep/21 and indicates that she's Active now. What I need is that, independent of what filter I'm using, the DAX formula always return her a Excluded status based on the last month of the model (apr/22 in this case).

Thank you!

Fabio

[sturlaws · Accepted solution]

Hi, @fabiocovre,

I think a measure like this would do the trick:

Is active/inactive =
VAR _lastMonth =
    CALCULATE ( MAX ( 'Table'[Month] ), REMOVEFILTERS () )
VAR _user =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Users'[User] )
VAR _isActiveLastMonth =
    CALCULATE (
        COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ),
        FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[User] = _user && 'Table'[Month] = _lastMonth )
    )
VAR _result =
    IF (
        ISBLANK ( _user ),
        BLANK (),
        IF (
            ISBLANK ( _isActiveLastMonth )
                && NOT ( ISBLANK ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Users[User] ) ) ),
            "Inactive",
            "Active"
        )
    )
RETURN
    _result

as you have not provided a sample report, I have used some generic names for table and columns, you will of course need to adapt this to your model.

Cheers,
Sturla

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