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Anonymous
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Max function does not work when using slicer?

The measure below works fine below until I select the year in a slicer.  The years in my app are 2014 - 2017 and the expression below correctly assumes max year -1 (2016) when nothing is selected, but when I select 2017 it goes blank.

 

The goal is if I select 2017 in the slicer then expression below counts for year 2016 and so on...

 

CountHeadcountPriorYear =
calculate(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(LnkAssociatesPeriod,LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])

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@Anonymous,

I create two new measures using the following DAX , both work well. Could you please post a screenshot about your scenario and share sample data of your table here?

CountHeadcountPriorYear =
calculate(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(ALL(LnkAssociatesPeriod),LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])
CountHeadcountPriorYear =VAR targetyear = Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1
RETURN CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(ALL(LnkAssociatesPeriod),LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=targetyear),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])



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Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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KHorseman
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If you select a year in the slicer, the entire table is filtered to that year. That year - 1 is excluded by your slicer selection. You would need to remove the filter context from the measure using ALL.

 

CountHeadcountPriorYear =
calculate(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(ALL(LnkAssociatesPeriod),LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])

 

...should work, but to be safe I would use a variable to keep the slicer selection separate from your filter statement...

 

CountHeadcountPriorYear =VAR targetyear = Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1
RETURN CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(LnkAssociatesPeriod,LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=targetyear),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])





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Anonymous
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Thanks so much for the help.

 

I used your expression but now I am getting an error that says "the following syntax error occurred during parsing; invalid token , line 2, offset 57". 

 

Z

@Anonymous,

I create two new measures using the following DAX , both work well. Could you please post a screenshot about your scenario and share sample data of your table here?

CountHeadcountPriorYear =
calculate(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(ALL(LnkAssociatesPeriod),LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])
CountHeadcountPriorYear =VAR targetyear = Max(LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year])-1
RETURN CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(LnkAssociatesPeriod),FILTER(ALL(LnkAssociatesPeriod),LnkAssociatesPeriod[Period_Year]=targetyear),LnkAssociatesPeriod[AssociatesATSkey])



Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Thanks - it worked!

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