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andywil456
Advocate II
10 years ago

calculate formula

I trying to pull through the total sales from another table but i want it to show the break down as per each payment category which is cross referenced by index numbers. The formula i'm using is Colu...
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Habib
Continued Contributor
10 years ago

Apply filter on your referenced table within CALCULATE funtion it might work as I am not sure about exact error.

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andywil456
Advocate II
10 years ago

Hi Habib,

Below is a screenshot of the table i have created and the error message.

What i'm after is a breakdown of the total supplier spend by payment category. 

 

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    Habib
    Continued Contributor
    10 years ago

    andywil456CALCULATE function expect filter as second parameter but in your scenario your are providing column value. Please add some filter option like ALL or ALLSELECTED.

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      andywil456
      Advocate II
      10 years ago

      Thank you Habib, now i'm getting another issue. Using either filter ALL or ALLSELECTED i'm getting a total value of £26m but the supplier amounts should only total £8.5m.

      I have applied the same formula to my customer amounts and they match. 

      The step up between each table is the same apart when i select "make this relationship active" i get this error message 

      . 

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        jahida
        Impactful Individual
        10 years ago

        If you want that relationship to work you need to make many of the other relationships (and that one) one-way. An easy way to think about is that there should be no loops in your relationships (cycles in graph terminology). The relationship you're trying to create would create a loop.

         

        In terms of the CALCULATE formula, if you want to keep it simple, just go with:

         

        CALCULATE(SUM('supplier pymt data'[Supplier Amount]), ALL('supplier pymt data'), 'supplier pymt data'[payment category] = Table1[payment category])

         

        Then you don't have to worry about the relationship at all (for this step at least). The reason you're getting a weird result right now is that because of the 2-way filtering, the filters are going through the Customer payment -> Date -> Supplier payment, which is giving you unexpected results. Switching to 1-way filtering should fix that. So would the ALL statement above.