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DeepikaHegde
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Power BI is returning entire list while using TopN on list

Hi,

 

I created user defined list and tried to perform TopN. While it is returning entire list,

 

measure= var __list={1,5,4,2,3,1,3}

return minx(topN(2,__list,__list,DESC),[value])

 

I am not sure of the reason for this. If I return topN(2,__list), it returns 1,5 which are not is Desc order. Help me sort it in Desc order.

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Sahir_Maharaj
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Hello @DeepikaHegde,

 

Can you please try this:

Measure = 
VAR __list = {1, 5, 4, 2, 3, 1, 3}
VAR __table = ADDCOLUMNS( GENERATESERIES(1, COUNTROWS(__list)), "Value", __list[Value] )
RETURN MINX( TOPN(2, __table, [Value], DESC), [Value] )

 

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