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teresadanna
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8 years ago
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Multiple Measures Causing Circular Dependency

I have the following measures & columns:

 

Measures:

 

PYTD Hours = CALCULATE(sum(Table[Hours]), DATESBETWEEN([Date], 5/31/2017, NOW()))

MTD Hours = TOTALMTD(sum(Table[Hours]),[Date])

 

Columns:

 

MTD Variance Group =
if(Table[MTD Hours] > 100, ">20%",
if(Table[MTD Hours] >50,"10-20%",
if(Table[MTD Hours] > 20,"5-10%",
if(Table[MTD Hours] > 10, "0-5%",""))))

 

PYTD Variance Group =
if(Table[PYTD Hours] > 100, ">20%",
if(Table[PYTD Hours] >50,"10-20%",
if(Table[PYTD Hours] > 20,"5-10%",
if(Table[PYTD Hours] > 10, "0-5%",""))))

 

MTD Variance Group works, however I keep getting an error on PYTD Variance Group:

 

A circular dependency was detected: Table[PYTD Variance Group], Table[MTD Variance Group], Table[PYTD Variance Group]

 

Thoughts?

  • teresadanna's avatar
    teresadanna
    8 years ago

    I realized that this issue is actually the result of a bigger issue related to not having a date table for earlier calculations. Thanks for everyones help!

2 Replies

  • Hi teresadanna,

     

    Please share (send) dummy data with expected results to figure out what you want to do.

     

    Thank you.

     

    Ninter

     

     

    • teresadanna's avatar
      teresadanna
      Frequent Visitor

      I realized that this issue is actually the result of a bigger issue related to not having a date table for earlier calculations. Thanks for everyones help!