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Anonymous
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Trying to create a dynamic row number in a table visual

I need to add a Row number to one of my table visuals. I've created a unique index column in the underlying table. The index can be used to create a row number starting from Row 1. Unfortunately when I filter the table visual on the Year column the Row value no longer starts with row 1. Below is what is coming out in the table visual. Is there a way to define a dynamic row number so it always starts with a row 1 regardless of the filtering on the visual?

U156531_0-1741375014547.png

 

 

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sevenhills
Super User
Super User

Two points if known, can provide accurate syntax.

 

Use case: you are trying to get the row number based on filter selection of each row. 

 

Assuming you have index column to identify unique row, then you can use this.

 

Try this:

Row_Number = 
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS('Table');
    FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ('Table'), 'Table'[Index] <= MAX ( 'Table'[Index]) )
)
 

 

Or  If not you can use all the filters that are applied to the table.

 

Row_Number = 
var _v1 = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[filterColumn1])
var _v2 = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[filterColumn2])
RETURN CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS('Table');
    FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ('Table'),
           'Table'[filterColumn1] <= _v1 && 'Table'[filterColumn2] = _v2 )
)

 

Hope this helps!

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sevenhills
Super User
Super User

Two points if known, can provide accurate syntax.

 

Use case: you are trying to get the row number based on filter selection of each row. 

 

Assuming you have index column to identify unique row, then you can use this.

 

Try this:

Row_Number = 
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS('Table');
    FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ('Table'), 'Table'[Index] <= MAX ( 'Table'[Index]) )
)
 

 

Or  If not you can use all the filters that are applied to the table.

 

Row_Number = 
var _v1 = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[filterColumn1])
var _v2 = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[filterColumn2])
RETURN CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS('Table');
    FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ('Table'),
           'Table'[filterColumn1] <= _v1 && 'Table'[filterColumn2] = _v2 )
)

 

Hope this helps!

Just to add some samples:

Using selected values as guidance:

sevenhills_0-1741634970270.png
Using Index (as guidance):
sevenhills_1-1741635005656.png

Default output:

sevenhills_2-1741635068416.png

Selected filter output:

sevenhills_4-1741635155007.png

 


Is this what you are looking for ? Hope this helps!

Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

See if my solution in this file helps.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
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Anonymous
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I'm getting this error.

S. No. = ROWNUMBER(ALLSELECTED('C-Standard Revisions'),ORDERBY('c-standard Revisions'[BOOK_DATE]))

U156531_0-1741615236211.png

 

Fowmy
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous 

The ROWNUMBER function in DAX should work for you in this case: ROWNUMBER function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

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Anonymous
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I tried 

Row = ROWNUMBER('Table_name')  The Tabe_name is the table behind the visual. Unfortunaely it only returns the value 1 for each row. 

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