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buckeye
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Top 5 Values From Multiple Columns

Hi! All,

 

I am looking for a way to retrieve the top 5 highest values out of 3 seperate columns. I am not looking for the top 5 of each column but the top 5 of all columns put together. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks 

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
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Given this:

 

Column1	Column2	Column3
100	500	600
200	3	1
1	4	2
2	5	3
3	6	4

Use this:

 

Measure = 
VAR tmpTable = UNION(UNION(VALUES(Table[Column1]),VALUES(Table[Column2])),VALUES(Table[Column3]))
RETURN CONCATENATEX(TOPN(5,tmpTable,[Column1],DESC),[Column1],",")

End up with this:

 

6,100,500,600,200

 

 

 



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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

Given this:

 

Column1	Column2	Column3
100	500	600
200	3	1
1	4	2
2	5	3
3	6	4

Use this:

 

Measure = 
VAR tmpTable = UNION(UNION(VALUES(Table[Column1]),VALUES(Table[Column2])),VALUES(Table[Column3]))
RETURN CONCATENATEX(TOPN(5,tmpTable,[Column1],DESC),[Column1],",")

End up with this:

 

6,100,500,600,200

 

 

 



Follow on LinkedIn
@ me in replies or I'll lose your thread!!!
Instead of a Kudo, please vote for this idea
Become an expert!: Enterprise DNA
External Tools: MSHGQM
YouTube Channel!: Microsoft Hates Greg
Latest book!:
DAX For Humans

DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard...

Thanks Greg for the help. 

 

Any thoughts on how I could pull the date from another column to match up with each value ?

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