Optional FILTER in CALCULATE in DAX - excel

Similarly to the Basket Analysis DAX pattern model, I have 1 fact for Sales, 1 dimension for Product and an extra dimension for Filter Product.
I want to use the Filter Product dimension to exclude products chosen by the user. I made it work with this DAX formula:
Sales =
CALCULATE (
SUM ( Sales['Sales'] ),
FILTER (
Product,
NOT ( 'Product'['ProductName'] IN VALUES ( 'FilterProduct'['ProductName'] ) )
)
)
This works as long as the user has already chosen a Product to exclude on FilterProduct slicer. But if nothing has been selected, the calculation will show blank, rather than just show everything. I wonder if there's a way to handle this gracefully. An idea I had was to create a variable and see if FilterProduct ISFILTERED(). If so, copy&paste the above with the FILTER() on SWITCH statement, if not, just skip the FILTER(). But this isn't great, because it duplicates code, and if I was to add another optional filter (e.g. SalesRegion), I'd had to pre-calculate all the combinations (e.g. SalesRegion & Product, just SalesRegion, just Product, none).

I think you can use the ISFILTERED function, but not exactly how you were suggesting. Try inserting it into you measure like this:
Sales =
CALCULATE (
SUM ( Sales['Sales'] ),
FILTER (
Product,
NOT ( ISFILTERED('FilterProduct'['ProductName']) ) ||
NOT ( 'Product'['ProductName'] IN VALUES ( 'FilterProduct'['ProductName'] ) )
)
)

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Max(If( equivalent in DAX PowerPivot

This question has been asked and answered before, however the solutions I've found don't seem to work for my current situation.
My table looks like:
I want to return the highest value in column B for all instances of it's match in column A in power pivot.
With a standard excel function, I would use =max(if(a2=a:a,b:b)) in column C.
I've tried =CALCULATE(max(Table1[B]),filter(Table1,Table1[A]=Table1[A])) but this is the result
Any help would be appreciated!
Table1[A] always equals Table1[A] so your condition is always true and thus doesn't do any meaningful filtering.
What you're looking for is to filter by the earlier row context (from the original table, not the FILTER iterator function):
CALCULATE (
MAX ( Table1[B] ),
FILTER ( Table1, Table1[A] = EARLIER ( Table1[A] ) )
)
Another way to do this is to use a variable to grab the row context before you're inside of the FILTER.
VAR CurrRowA = Table1[A]
RETURN
CALCULATE ( MAX ( Table1[B] ), Table1[A] = CurrRowA )

DAX Filter context

I am wondering what the difference is between these two DAX expressions which each return what I need:
(1) =calculate([PctMkt], FILTER ( ALL ( BondDim), BondDim[Quality] = "HY" ))
(2) =calculate([PctMkt], ALL(BondDim), BondDim[Quality] = "HY" )
Does the DAX engine make these two expressions equivalent? Is (2) just short hand for (1)? Also, would (1) calculate more quickly? Trying to make sure that I don't cause problems in the pivot table by "hacking" together calculated measures. These measures allow the user to drilldown to a lower grain while keeping higher level data in context of the pivot table.
A simpler, similar question is well-known.
CALCULATE (
[PctMkt],
BondDim[Quality] = "HY"
)
is the shortened equivalent of
CALCULATE (
[PctMkt],
FILTER (
ALL ( BondDim[Quality] ),
BondDim[Quality] = "HY"
)
)
Your formulas need a bit more thought.
When ALL is used as an argument of CALCULATE, it only removes filters (like REMOVEFILTERS) rather than acting as a table expression.
When ALL ( < table > ) is used as an argument of FILTER, it is necessarily a table expression.
The first link I gave gives a detailed example of how this distinction can make an important difference. I'll provide another example here:
Suppose MarketDim has a one-to-many relationship with BondDim (and is not bidirectional) on the ID column from each and the tables are as follows:
BondDim MarketDim
Quality ID ID Pct
------------- ----------
HY 1 1 5%
VY 1 2 10%
XY 2 3 20%
Let's suppose [PctMkt] := MAX ( MarketDim[Pct] )
Then, in your first formula (1), the FILTER argument is the following table:
Quality ID
-------------
HY 1
Thus, the result of (1) can only be 5% (or blank) since ID = 1 is the only option.
In your second formula (2), there are no table arguments since ALL ( BondDim ) is only removing filters and BondDim[Quality] = "HY" only acts on a single column. Without table arguments, since MarketDim filters BondDim but not vice versa (since it's a single direction relationship), neither of these column filter arguments has any effect on the measure I've defined (it might on your actual measure though).
Thus, the result of (2) is the same as just CALCULATE ( [PctMkt] ), which will be 20% unless there is filtering on MarketDim to exclude ID = 3.
Note: This simplification for (2) does not hold if [PctMkt] operates on BondDim columns or any table columns that are filtered by BondDim in your model. I.e. the filters propagate "downstream" across relationships but not "upstream".
The second one
CALCULATE (
[PctMkt],
ALL ( BondDim ),
BondDim[Quality] = "HY"
)
is internally expanded by DAX as the equivalent formula
CALCULATE (
[PctMkt],
ALL ( BondDim ),
FILTER (
ALL ( BondDim[Quality] ),
BondDim[Quality] = "HY"
)
)
So it is not the same as the first one
CALCULATE (
[PctMkt],
FILTER (
ALL ( BondDim ),
BondDim[Quality] = "HY"
)
)
The difference is that the first one uses the whole BondDim table as a filter while the second one is using just one column of the same table

Sum in pivot hierachy

I have the following DAX-formula to retrieve the opening and closing balance for a list of products.
=CALCULATE(MAX(transactions[Balance]);
FILTER(transactions;
transactions[ID] = MAX(transactions[ID])
)
)
This works on row level in my Pivot but when I group this och Product category level I only get one value and not the sum of all the product rows.
My data contains of rows for each transaction and each row have a columns with current balance.
How do I sum each row to get the group sum for the above category "00-01" 26784 and 283500?
One way to do this is to leverage an iterative function like a SUMX.
Assuming that your EndValue is the measure that you defined.
SUMX_Example := SUMX( VALUES ( transactions[ID] ) , [EndValue] )
Which will do the following:
Though VALUES ( transactions[ID] ) it will generate a list of your IDs
For each ID it will run your already created [EndValue] measure
Sum the result of each ID's end value
This is of course assuming [ID] does not cover categories. If ID does cross categories, then you would first do a SUMX using category, with another SUMX that does ID

(Power) Pivot - show true/false and calculate at the same time

I have the following data source:
My pivot rows are Team => Project Name with "Value" column in the Values. I am calculating the % ration of all projects that have value "True" compared to all projects that have a value (disregarding those without values). Here's the formula I use in PowerPivot:
=CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(),'Table'[Value]=TRUE()) / CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(), ('Table'[Value]=FALSE() || 'Table'[Value]=TRUE()), ISLOGICAL('Table'[Value]))
The formula works, however I only need to see this percentage on the "Team" level, the expanded projects should still have "True/False" values. Is this possible? Preferably, without VBA.
Format your code. If you like reading very long lines, that's fine, but use DAX Formatter for the rest of us.
True vs All =
CALCULATE(
COUNTROWS( 'Table' ) // It's considered a best practice
// to explicitly name the table in
// COUNTROWS()
,'Table'[Value]=TRUE()
) / CALCULATE(
COUNTROWS( 'Table' )
// You can remove the test for [Value] = TRUE() ||
// [Value] = FALSE()
,ISLOGICAL('Table'[Value])
)
ConditionalDisplay =
IF(
ISFILTERED( 'Table'[Project] )
&& HASONEVALUE( 'Table'[Project] )
,VALUES( 'Table'[Value] )
,[True vs All]
)
[True vs All] is a cleaned up version of your existing measure.
[ConditionalDisplay] does what its name says. Displays a different value based on conditions.
We check for ISFILTERED() to cover the edge case where a given value of [Team] has only a single project. We check for HASONEVALUE() to cover the case where an explicit filter (slicer or filter) exists on [Project], but more than one is in context (grand total level).
When the two are true, we return VALUES( 'Table'[Value] ), the column made up of the distinct values in [Value]. This is only evaluated when we already know there's exactly one distinct value. A 1x1 table is implicitly converted to scalar in DAX.
When there's more than one distinct value of [Value] or it's not filtered, then we return your original measure.
[ConditionalDisplay] will fail if you have two rows for the same value of [Project] with multiple values of [Value].

Calculated Measure Based on Condition in Dax

I have a requirement in Power Pivot where I need to show value based on the Dimension Column value.
If value is Selling Price then Amount Value of Selling Price from Table1 should display, if Cost Price then Cost Price Amount Should display, if it is Profit the ((SellingPrice-CostPrice)/SellingPrice) should display
My Table Structure is
Table1:-
Table2:-
Required Output:-
If tried the below option:-
1. Calculated Measure:=If(Table[Category]="CostPrice",[CostValue],If(Table1[category]="SellingPrice",[SalesValue],([SalesValue]-[CostValue]/[SalesValue])))
*[CostValue]:=Calculate(Sum(Table1[Amount]),Table1[Category]="CostPrice")
*[Sales Value]:=Calculate(Sum(Table1[Amount]),Table1[Category]="SellingPrice")
Tried this in both Calculated Column and Measure but not giving me required output.
Cost:=
CALCULATE(
SUM( Table1[Amount] )
,Table1[Category] = "CostPrice"
)
Selling:=
CALCULATE(
SUM( Table1[Amount] )
,Table1[Category] = "SellingPrice"
)
Profit:=
DIVIDE(
[Selling] - [Cost]
,[Selling]
)
ConditionalMeasure:=
IF(
HASONEFILTER( Table2[Category] )
,SWITCH(
VALUES( Table2[Category] )
,"CostPrice"
,[Cost]
,"SellingPrice"
,[Selling]
,"Profit"
,[Profit]
)
,[Profit]
)
HASONEFILTER() checks that there is filter context on the named field and that the filter context includes only a single distinct value.
This is just a guard to allow our SWITCH() to refer to VALUES( Table2[Category] ). VALUES() returns a table of all distinct values in the named column or table. So, a 1x1 table can be implicitly converted to a scalar, which we need in SWITCH().
SWITCH() is a case statement.
Our else condition in the IF() is just returning [Profit]. You might want something else, but it's unclear what should happen at the grand total level. You can leave this off, and the measure will be blank in IF()'s else condition.
I was thinking about this a little. I'm not sure why you have your categories on rows. Usually the data set would have columns like: item | CostPrice | SellingPrice | Profit. Then you can just use the columns to define your fields. The model becomes easier and more maintainable.

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