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bdehning
Post Prodigy
3 years ago
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Need help with Measure for Matrix Table and Top 5

I really need help in writing a measure.  I have attched sample PBI Table and screen shot of current table.  I use a Filter for the Reporting Location City and a Measure that shows the Top 5 Reportin...
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  • PaulDBrown's avatar
    PaulDBrown
    3 years ago

    Have you tried sorting by the sum measure in descending order?

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    PaulDBrown
    3 years ago

    I would go for:

    Ref =
     [Sum of Total Gross Incurred]  * 1000000000000 + COUNT(LossRunToExcel[Reporting Location City])

  • bdehning's avatar
    bdehning
    3 years ago

    I got the first example to work in main file. Thank you for all the help.  I will need more time this weekend to try the more creative and visual 2nd option.  

  • PaulDBrown's avatar
    PaulDBrown
    3 years ago

    Yes, it's definitely an issue in the service. You need to sort by the city field to get the axis to respect the structure:

    It actually emulates the problem we used to have in Desktop when you turned off concatenate fields: for the setting to take effect, you needed to sort the axis by the fields:

    It might be worth reporting the issue on the issues forum:

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues 

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PaulDBrown
Community Champion
3 years ago

Juts perhaps for the sake of practicing DAX, a more elegant way to calculate meausre [Ref] would be to calculate an appropiate factor instead of the random 1000000000000. 

So:

 

Ref =
VAR _MX =
    MAXX (
        ALL ( InjuryCause[Cause Grouping] ),
        CALCULATE ( COUNT ( LossRunToExcel[Total Gross Incurred] ) )
    )
VAR _LNGTh =
    LEN ( _MX ) + 1
RETURN
    COUNT ( LossRunToExcel[Reporting Location City] ) * POWER ( 10, _LNGTH ) + [Sum of Total Gross Incurred]

 

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    bdehning
    Post Prodigy
    3 years ago

    Paul,

     

    I tried your latest Ref as a way to pratice DAX,  but it did not select the correct Top 5.