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Helper IIIvar return with Slicers.
Right but you are still using VAR's and CALCULATE weird. Try this:
Quantity sold = CALCULATE( SUMX( sales, sales[quantity]), DATESYTD( date[date] ), FILTER( product, product[code] = "A") )The other option would be to take your 2 VAR's and turn them into their own measures, then what you are doing with the CALCULATE would make more sense.
Community ChampionI've never seen a FILTER clause used as a variable and then passed into a CALCULATE function. That's weird and I'm kind of surprised it works. Try taking your FILTER clause for ProductFilter and replace ProductFilter in your RETURN statement with the actual FILTER clause and see if that works.
Helper IIIThank you for your advice.
But it is not working....
After change the dax formula as following, Change slicer for product[code] <> A presents values....
I must be 0 or empty...
Quantity sold =
var Quantity = SUMX( sales, sales[quantity])
var QuantityYTD = CALCULATE( Quantity, DATESYTD( date[date] ) )
return
CALCULATE( QuantityYTD, FILTER( product, product[code] = "A"))
- Greg_Deckler
Right but you are still using VAR's and CALCULATE weird. Try this:
Quantity sold = CALCULATE( SUMX( sales, sales[quantity]), DATESYTD( date[date] ), FILTER( product, product[code] = "A") )The other option would be to take your 2 VAR's and turn them into their own measures, then what you are doing with the CALCULATE would make more sense.
- Young_G_Han
Yes. It is working.
Because I have many similar calculation, I tried to use var - return calculation.
I am not familiar with dax yet, I have tried.
Can you please advise me that any web page or helpful document that can help me to understand var - return calculation?
- Greg_Deckler
A VAR within a DAX calculation is a bit of a misnomer. Once you calculate a VAR, it is static (hence why it is a bit of misnomer). You cannot use CALCULATE to recalculate a VAR. You generally use CALCULATE to calculate a measure or DAX expression with some new filter criteria. A VAR is really useful when you want to break down a complex calculation into manageable chunks or avoid doing the same calculation twice (like in an IF statement). However, the way you were using them is simply invalid.