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I have a table SalesOpportunities that lists various information including "RecurringServices$," "Project$," and "Product$"
I want to calculate/show the Top 10 Sales Opportunities for 1. The highest Product$ 2. The highest RecurringServices$ and 3. The highest Project$
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Hi bhmiller89,
>> and I get the error "The expression refers to multiple columns. Multiple columns cannot be converted to a scalar value."
I think you put this dax formula to a measure, you should use a table to receive the new table from the topn function:
TopN function: Returns the top N rows of the specified table.
The order by columns of topN function seems not work, perhaps you could try to use ‘sample function’:
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
You can write a DAX Query as below:
and modify further as per your needs.
EVALUATE
TOPN(
10,
SalesOpportunities,
SalesOpportunities[Product$],
SalesOpportunities[RecurringServices$],
SalesOpportunities[Project$]
)
Hope this would solve your problem.
Hi,
I wrote
TopOpps= TOPN(10, 'Sales Opportunities', 'Sales Opportunities[Product$], DESC, 'Sales Opportunities[Project$], DESC, 'Sales Opportunities[Recurring$], DESC)
and I get the error "The expression refers to multiple columns. Multiple columns cannot be converted to a scalar value."
Hi bhmiller89,
>> and I get the error "The expression refers to multiple columns. Multiple columns cannot be converted to a scalar value."
I think you put this dax formula to a measure, you should use a table to receive the new table from the topn function:
TopN function: Returns the top N rows of the specified table.
The order by columns of topN function seems not work, perhaps you could try to use ‘sample function’:
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
You need to use the DAX Studio to get the query results as it is referring to the multiple columns.
downloading is at
https://www.sqlbi.com/tools/dax-studio/
use EVALUATE
QUERY SYNTAX
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