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The Month column is straight from the table and the TotalCount is a measure (counta(Members)) counting the number of members in that month.
| Month | TotalCount |
1 | 596 |
| 2 | 552 |
| 3 | 608 |
| 4 | 484 |
| 5 | 292 |
| 6 | 209 |
| 7 | 187 |
I'd like a SuggestedMonth measure that shows at which month the TotalCount is less than 40% of the max TotalCount, rounding down.
Looking at the data, max(TotalCount) = 608 * .4 = 243 (rounded down)
So month 6 is the expected result which is the minimum month at which the total count dipped below the threshold.
All of my CALCULATE, IF and MAXX functions have returned PLACEHOLDER or TRUE/FALSE errors or that TotalCount can't be used in this expression.
Solved! Go to Solution.
So @VahidDM sent me down the right path by using variables, return and filter.
The main problem was trying to take the maximum of a measure. Max requires a column, so I had to build a virtual table using SUMMARIZE and take the maximum of one column from that virtual table. I was then able to filter that virtual table based on the threshold variable I had previously defined.
Looking at the data, I found that I didn't want to include the month in which patientCount fell below the threshold, so I subtracted one from the month and then made an IF to account for any Month=-1 value to return "ALL".
SuggestedMonth =
Var TableVar=
SUMMARIZE(Table
, Table[Month]
,"PatientCount"
, counta(Table[Members]))
Var ThreshVar=
MAXX(
TableVar
,[PatientCount]*.4)
Return
IF((
MINX(Filter (TableVar,[PatientCount] < ThreshVar)
,Table[Month])-1)<0
,"ALL"
,MINX(Filter (TableVar,[PatientCount] <
ThreshVar),Table[Month])-1
)
So @VahidDM sent me down the right path by using variables, return and filter.
The main problem was trying to take the maximum of a measure. Max requires a column, so I had to build a virtual table using SUMMARIZE and take the maximum of one column from that virtual table. I was then able to filter that virtual table based on the threshold variable I had previously defined.
Looking at the data, I found that I didn't want to include the month in which patientCount fell below the threshold, so I subtracted one from the month and then made an IF to account for any Month=-1 value to return "ALL".
SuggestedMonth =
Var TableVar=
SUMMARIZE(Table
, Table[Month]
,"PatientCount"
, counta(Table[Members]))
Var ThreshVar=
MAXX(
TableVar
,[PatientCount]*.4)
Return
IF((
MINX(Filter (TableVar,[PatientCount] < ThreshVar)
,Table[Month])-1)<0
,"ALL"
,MINX(Filter (TableVar,[PatientCount] <
ThreshVar),Table[Month])-1
)
Hi @OPJayhawk
Try this measure:
Month Less %40 =
VAR _A =
ROUND ( MAX ( 'Table'[TotalCount] ) * 0.4, 0 )
VAR _B =
CALCULATE (
MAX ( 'Table'[TotalCount] ),
FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[TotalCount] < _A )
)
RETURN
CALCULATE (
MAX ( 'Table'[Month] ),
FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[TotalCount] = _B )
)
Output:
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Appreciate your Kudos!!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vahid-dm/
Thanks for your help.
I still get an error: "Column 'TotalCount' in table 'Table' cannot be found or may not be used in this expression."
Is that related to TotalCount being a measure? I have a lot of other columns in my data but I only thought these 2 were necessary to include. Anyway, I'll keep playing with it. Thanks again!
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