Isolating values from specific column in matrix

[EpicTriffid]

Hi all,

Bit of a difficult one to explain this, but in the screenshot below, I am attempting to calculate the difference between forecasted student numbers in the future, and the actual financial year we are currently in (ignore the fact that it says 21/22 instead of 22/23).

So at the moment I am attempting to isolate the values in the 2021/22 column and bring them into the 1 Year Diff %, 3 Year Diff % and 5 Year Diff % columns. I have the differences, that's fine. All I need it to make those Diff columns show the values in 2021/22 so it would look like this (1 row as example):

	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25	2025/26	2027/28	1 year diff	3 year diff	5 year diff
UGFE	196	149	163	172	175	178	180	182	163	163	163

The values in 2021/22 could be changed by any of the slicers at the top of the page, which would then be reflected in the values in the 1, 3 and 5 year diff columns.

I have tried ALLEXCEPT as below, but when i take into account all the columns that could be filtered, it blanks out everything except the totals, as you can see in the screenshot below:

CALCULATE(
    SUM('Base Data'[Total Student Count]), 
    ALLEXCEPT(
        'Base Data', 
        'Base Data'[Department],
        'Base Data'[Faculty],
        'Base Data'[Mode and Code],
        'Base Data'[Course Mode],
        'Base Data'[Fee Status],
        'Base Data'[Course Title],
        'Base Data'[Forecast/Actuals],
        'Base Data'[Course Level (Grp 2)], 
        'Base Data'[Course Level (Grp 1)], 
        'Base Data'[Numbers Type]),
    'Base Data'[Course Year of Study] = 1, 
    'Base Data'[Year Index] = 3)

I feel like I'm really close on this, but that I'm just not understanding ALLEXCEPT enough to make it work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[v-xinruzhu-msft]

Hi @EpicTriffid 

Did you create the dax in measure, you can try to put the dax in a measure, then put the measure to the matrix

measure=
CALCULATE(
    SUM('Base Data'[Total Student Count]), 
    ALLEXCEPT(
        'Base Data', 
        'Base Data'[Department],
        'Base Data'[Faculty],
        'Base Data'[Mode and Code],
        'Base Data'[Course Mode],
        'Base Data'[Fee Status],
        'Base Data'[Course Title],
        'Base Data'[Forecast/Actuals],
        'Base Data'[Course Level (Grp 2)], 
        'Base Data'[Course Level (Grp 1)], 
        'Base Data'[Numbers Type]),
    'Base Data'[Course Year of Study] = 1, 
    'Base Data'[Year Index] = 3)

If it cannot work, can you provide sample pbix file?

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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