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Hi, I'm relatively new to PowerBI so I have been searching for so many ways to do this but none of them seem to fit.
I would like to find a way using a measure to select rows based on a condition, and on top of it, select all corresponding rows with a matching category. The catch is that the condition is dynamic.
This will probably be easier to illustrate with the below example.
Suppose I have the below dataset, displayed in a table visual:
Category | Week | Value |
A | 12 | 88 |
A | 13 | 30 |
A | 14 | 99 |
B | 13 | 80 |
B | 14 | 60 |
B | 16 | 90 |
B | 17 | 80 |
C | 13 | 80 |
C | 14 | 32 |
D | 14 | 80 |
D | 15 | 90 |
D | 16 | 70 |
D | 17 | 84 |
Suppose I want to select such that Value < 50.
My requirement is that, for any row that fulfils the condition, I want to
1. Retrieve that row's category
2. Select all other rows with that category
My desired output will be as follows:
Category | Week | Value | Selected |
A | 12 | 88 | Yes |
A | 13 | 30 | Yes |
A | 14 | 99 | Yes |
B | 13 | 80 | |
B | 14 | 60 | |
B | 16 | 90 | |
B | 17 | 80 | |
C | 13 | 80 | Yes |
C | 14 | 32 | Yes |
D | 14 | 80 | |
D | 15 | 90 | |
D | 16 | 70 | |
D | 17 | 84 |
I have indicated in red the rows that match the condition. In this example, since those rows are A and C, all rows with categories A and C are selected.
Currently, the problem I'm facing is that since Measures only work on a row context, there's no way I can select all other rows with the corresponding categories. Currently, the measure I have looks something like this:
Selected =
VAR N = [Parameter Value] // To be selected by WhatIf Parameter Slicer
RETURN SWITCH(TRUE(),
Value < N, "Yes"
)
As you may be able to tell, this can only get me the exact rows that match the value (Only those in red in the table above). I can't figure out a way to get it to work for other rows with the same category. I've looked at this which is essentially what I need, but it only works for a set value, not a variable, so it would not be able to work dynamically.
I've thought of ways, such as creating another calculated Table or Column to 'store' the 'Bad' Categories (in the case of this example, A and C) so I can reference to it when selecting. However I have read that calculated Tables are not dynamic and needs to be refreshed manually, so that may not work in my case. Additionally, I can't really utilise Power Query or make direct changes to my dataset as the automated data-uploading process is pretty much already set in stone and my supervisor has requested that direct changes to the dataset be minimised. If there is a way I can do it in just measures, that would be great.
This is probably the simplest way I can put in words my current problem. If it is truly possible to do the above using measures, it would be a great breakthrough in my work. My background is in programming and not so much in querying language, so learning to navigate DAX has been a challenge. I will be very grateful if anyone can help me with this issue, and will gladly provide more information if needed. Thank you!
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Hi @honkiedonkie ,
Please refer to my pbix file.
Best Regards
Community Support Team _ Rongtie
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Hi @honkiedonkie ,
Please refer to my pbix file.
Best Regards
Community Support Team _ Rongtie
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi @honkiedonkie ,
Please have a try.
Create 2 measures.
Measure =
VAR _1 =
SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table (2)'[value] )
VAR _2 =
IF ( MAX ( 'Table'[Value] ) <= _1, "Yes", BLANK () )
RETURN
_2
Measure2 =
MAXX (
FILTER (
ALL ( 'Table' ),
'Table'[Category] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Category] )
),
[Measure]
)
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This also works, thank you!
However I was wondering - if I want to insert the corresponding value into Measure 2 rather than 'Yes', how could I go about it? Eg. for the C rows, it will display 80 and 32 respectively instead of 'Yes'. MAXX will give me the max of all the values corresponding to the same category and I know that that is expected behaviour. Could you advise me on how to go about doing this? Thank you!
Hi @honkiedonkie ,
Please try to change the measure2.
Measure2 =
VAR _1 =
MAXX (
FILTER (
ALL ( 'Table' ),
'Table'[Category] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Category] )
),
[Measure]
)
RETURN
IF ( _1 <> BLANK (), MAX ( 'Table'[Value] ), BLANK () )
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That's genius, thank you!
One more thing, if rather than 'Table'[Value] I had a measure of the value - is there a way I can still do the above?
In my actual dataset there are some values with repeated Category-Week combination and I have a measure that returns the average of those values for the rows with same combination.
Averaging Measure = CALCULATE(AVERAGE('Table'[Value]), ALLEXCEPT('Table', 'Table'[Category], 'Table[Week]))
The current way I can go about doing this is to create a calculated column rather than measure, but for a large dataset my computer does not have sufficient memory. I was wondering if there is a way I could use only measures to do this. Thank you again!
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This is genius, thank you for this!
Just one more thing - is there a way for me to do the same but filter using a measure rather than a column?
Say, if the dataset has multiple rows where Category and Week is the same, and I have a measure that takes the average of all rows with the same Category-Week. Putting FILTER(INFO, [Averaging Measure] < MAX(Threshold[Value])) doesn't seem to work.
Again, thank you so much!
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