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anshusaketsingh
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1 year ago
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Unexpected Ranking Behavior When Adding Dimensions in Power BI

I was working with the RANK function to rank sales by Sub-Category, and it works fine when only Sub-Category is in the table. However, when I add another dimension (like a different field), the ranki...
  • Jihwan_Kim's avatar
    Jihwan_Kim
    1 year ago

    Hi,

    Thank you for your message, and in my opinion, please try to write the measures like the attached file.

     

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    anshusaketsingh
    1 year ago

    Thanks , this really helps. The issue was never the Rankx but the underlying measure .

     
    [Total Saless All Except Sub-Cat With Slicer]=CALCULATE([Total Sales], ALLSELECTED(Orders),VALUES(Orders[Sub-Category]))

    Once I changed that , RankX worked like a charm without need to summarize 

    Sub-Category Ranking =

    RANKX( ALLSELECTED ( Orders[Sub-Category]), [Total Saless All Except Sub-Cat With Slicer],,,Dense)