Multiple top N filters

[Rob1992]

Hi,

I am new to Power BI, but love it already! Amazing tool.

Unfortunately I am facing an issue where I am unable to add multiple top N filters to a bar chart.

What I am trying to visualize is the top 5 suppliers (based on spend) for the top 10 categories (based on spend) in a certain period. If I add the supplier dimension it messes up the chart, as some suppliers contain a large amount of suppliers.

Is there any way around this?

[v-zhenbw-msft]

Hi @Rob1992 ,

How about the result after you follow the suggestions mentioned in my original post?
Could you please provide more details or expected result about it If it doesn't meet your requirement?

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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[v-zhenbw-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rob1992 ,

We can create a calculate column and use filter on this visual to meet your requirement.

1. We need to create a column to calculate the total of each category.

Sum = 
CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Spend]),FILTER(ALLSELECTED('Table'),EARLIER('Table'[Category])='Table'[Category]))

2. Then we can create a rank column based on sum column.

Rank = RANKX('Table','Table'[Sum],,DESC,Dense)

3. At last we can put the rank column in filter on this visual and configure the top five of supplier name.

If it doesn’t meet your requirement, could you please show the exact expected result based on the table that you have shared?

BTW, pbix as attached.

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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[kentyler]

It sounds like you're saying.... if i find the top 10 categories (based on spend) then i would like to show the top 5 suppliers...in those categories

You should be able to write a measure that can be applied to the supplier table that looks up the top ten categories, and then checks to see if the current supplier is in the top 5 spenders for those categories.... which returns a flag value, true/false that tells whether the supplier should be included in the report.

If you'd like help with the dax please post a sample table (from excel) of suppliers, and of spending and I'll help you with the measure.

[Rob1992]

Hi, thanks for the quick response. You are correct, that is what I am trying to do.

Again, I am completely new to PBI so writing measures is new too.

I have anonymized the supplier names and categories in the sample below.

Supplier - Name	Category	Spend
Chris	A	2,28
Mark	B	8,43
Chris	B	13,58
Chris	C	2,61
Chris	C	2,81
Chris	B	14,38
Chris	D	94,98
Chris	E	9,77
Chris	F	4,63
Chris	E	12,9
Chris	D	67,42
Chris	F	9,03
Chris	E	19,87
Chris	F	15,91
Chris	C	24,86
Chris	B	4,78
Chris	F	21,51
Chris	E	12,86
Chris	E	28,8
Chris	B	14,82
Chris	C	2,06
Peter	G	10,64
Ted	G	7,8
Ted	H	2,02
Ted	G	10,55
Ted	H	1,96
Ted	H	0,96
Mark	H	27,6
Mark	I	53,7
Mark	H	20,28
Mark	I	9,5
Mark	I	5,46
Mark	B	16,86
Mark	E	9,39
Mark	E	11,61
Mark	E	9,24
Mark	B	16,5
Mark	B	6,84
Mark	H	2,94
Mark	B	10,52
Mark	B	56,25
Mark	I	10,32
Mark	H	27,72
Mark	I	20,79
Mark	I	17,04
Mark	B	4,23
Mark	B	11,28
Mark	B	11,28
Mark	B	8,51
Mark	H	4,14
Mark	B	9,24
Mark	B	16,06
Mark	I	11,91
Mark	G	12,03
Mark	B	7,6
Mark	I	20,09
Mark	I	20,84
Mark	G	22,52
Mark	G	25,96
Mark	G	22,76
Mark	H	4,14
Mark	B	7,52
Mark	J	16,98
Mark	H	16,49
Mark	B	6,47
Mark	G	12,51
Mark	B	11,06
Mark	I	5,58
Mark	I	39,29
Mark	G	16,92
Mark	G	21,48
Mark	H	4,86
Mark	C	8,24
Mark	G	10,2
Mark	G	31,33
Mark	H	17,82
Mark	H	2,98
Mark	H	7,86
Mark	I	19,05
Mark	I	18,55
Mark	B	27,62
Mark	B	21,07
Mark	B	22,12
Mark	A	37,36
Mark	C	9,76
Mark	E	14,4
Mark	C	12,66
Mark	C	23,15
Mark	D	17,7
Mark	C	14,71
Mark	K	26,72
Mark	K	75,32
Mark	C	6,39
Mark	C	12,54
Mark	C	9,81
Mark	L	29,4
Mark	C	14,37
Mark	D	14,72
Mark	D	14,72

[kentyler]

Working out a solution to this involved multiple, interlocked steps, so a made a little video to explain them. https://youtu.be/nJrbc6P209o  Let me know if you have any further questions.

[amitchandak]

@Rob1992 , refer if this can help

https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filtering-the-top-3-products-for-each-category-in-power-bi/