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bmpi
Frequent Visitor

Improvement of IF-CALCULATE calculation

I have a formula that runs slow, which I am looking to improve..

 

Is there a more efficient way to write this formula?

(I want to return 0 if the colour is not "blue" for average calculation purposes)

 

In addition I want to return blank on all dates larger than today, but I did not find a way to make this work for this calculation.

 

# Blue People =

 IF(

    ISBLANK(CALCULATE([# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue")) ,

       0,

     CALCULATE([# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue"))

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

hi @bmpi 

please try

=
COALESCE ( CALCULATE ( [# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue" ), 0 )

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Syk
Super User
Super User

try something like this

Blue people =
var BluePeeps = CALCULATE([# People],Product[Colour]="Blue")
RETURN if(MAX('Date'[Date])<TODAY(), BluePeeps,0)
bmpi
Frequent Visitor

Thanks!

 

Ended up with a mix of both suggestions:

 

# Blue People  =

VAR BluePeeps = CALCULATE([# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue"))
VAR COAL = COALESCE(BluePeeps,0)
RETURN IF(max(dimDate[Date]) <= TODAY(), COAL, BLANK())

Good to hear! For a bit simpler return you can leave off the last BLANK(). If you don't include anything for the false part of the if statement, it will automatically return blank!

tamerj1
Super User
Super User

hi @bmpi 

please try

=
COALESCE ( CALCULATE ( [# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue" ), 0 )

bmpi
Frequent Visitor

Thanks, work like a charm.

 

Ended up with a mix of both suggestions:

 

# Blue People  =

VAR BluePeeps = CALCULATE([# People], Product[Colour] = "Blue"))
VAR COAL = COALESCE(BluePeeps,0)
RETURN IF(max(dimDate[Date]) <= TODAY(), COAL, BLANK())

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