Use a Default Measure When Slicer is Set to 'All'

[lg1551]

I have a Quarter/Month Hierarchy Slicer.

By Default, the slicer is set to "All", meaning nothing is selected in the slicer. When it is in this state, I want the visual to display a specific measure.

If the user selects a Month or Quarter from the slicer or multiple Months or Quarters, I want it to use a different measure.

I've tried, SELECTED VALUE, HASONEFILTER, HASONEVALUE,and ISFILTERED. 

But it seems Power BI thinks the slicer is in fact filtered, when nothing is selected.

What I'm looking for is a default visual display when nothing is selected, but the visual can be customized as the user selects Quarters or Months.

Thank you.

[v-stephen-msft]

Hi @lg1551 ,

When you want the slicer not to select a month or quarter, the visual is empty, such as the following.

When there's a selection in the slicer, display specific results in the table visual.

Below is the solution.

1.Create a disconnnected calculated table using dax. 

2.The fields of the slicer are from Table 2.

3.Create measure as the visual-level filter. Put it into the table visual and set up show items when the value is 1. And then the expected you want is done.

Measure =
IF (
    ISFILTERED ( 'Table 2'[Quarter] ) || ISFILTERED ( 'Table 2'[Month] ),
    IF ( MAX ( 'Table'[Month] ) IN ALLSELECTED ( 'Table 2'[Month] ), 1 )
)

The key is to create a disconnected table.

You can download my attachment for more details.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[lg1551]

Thanks for the reply. I was actually able to get this sorted out. 

What I was after, was for the visual to use a default measure, when the slicer has nothing or "All" selected. I was able to achieve this via some DAX.

[AllisonKennedy]

@lg1551 

You need to determine how many values the slicer has without filters, then compare to how many it has in current context:

Measure = 
VAR _CountAllOptions = CALCULATE( countrows( values ( table[column] ) ), ALL() )

VAR _CountCurrentOptions = countrows( values ( table[column] ) )

VAR _Result = IF( _CountAllOptions = _CountCurrentOptions, [Default Measure], [Other Measure] )

RETURN
_Result

[lg1551]

I had the original measure and I created 2 additional measures.

Measure 1: This measure displays the data as I want it displayed in default state (no slicer selection).

Measure 2: This is a measure that uses an IF statement. If(selectedvalue('slicer')=Blank(), Measure 1, Original Measure.

[lg1551 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply. I was actually able to get this sorted out. 

What I was after, was for the visual to use a default measure, when the slicer has nothing or "All" selected. I was able to achieve this via some DAX.

[AllisonKennedy]

@lg1551  Can you please share the DAX that you've used so others can benefit? I'd also be interested to learn how it differs from the DAX I suggested to you. 

Thanks! and glad you got it solved.