values() as filter

[Anonymous]

Hi , 

I'm having difficulty understanding how values() can be used to restore a filter. I know values() will return a table of unique values, but I don't understand how values() restores the year-quarter filter in my table even though I have written removefilters() in the same function. Also how does the year-quarter values returned from the values() table get linked to the year-month filter in the matrix table ? I think the year-month filter in the table should not work any more since I have write removerfilters(). 

Below is the video which I used to generate the values() function. Maybe someone can explain to me what Macro Russo means in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKj4GLJA-lw

[Fowmy · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

In your formula, you have used REMOVEFILTERS() which removes filters from the whole calendar table then you have used VALUES with Year Quarter as a filter argument in CALCULATE function. Basically, you are providing a table filter to the CALCULATE function whereby the expression is evaluated only with Year Quarter from the Calendar table.