Using Dynamic Measures to recalculate visualized data

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I struggle to create a visualization that updates an average value to weeks based on a Dynamic Measure.

I'm creating a dashboard to keep track of %usage of each person in a team. Each set of data (row) contains, [Hours], [Person], [EndOfWeek], [Week Number]. [Project], [ProjectType] that are in my table 'JobTime'

Doing this, I calculate total number of 'Hours' per Person, Per Week (37.5h).  Visualizing this, I want to choose week numbers, and get a percentage on %utilization of a person based on the week interval I have chosen. 

1. I created a Measure: [WeekIntervals] = Distinctcount(JobTime[Week Number]) to count no. of weeks.

2. I make a slicer to adjust the week interval and a Power BI Card that updates [WeekIntervals] based on what I slice.

3. I calculate no. of hours per person per week as a percentage by JobTime[Hours]/37.5/[WeekIntervals].

[WeekIntervals] is dynamic when looking at the Power BI Card, but not in data when I've put the Measure into the DAX Formula.

Is there any way to make a Dynamic Measure to work in a DAX formula when visualizing data? See figure below.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm creating a dashboard to keep track of %usage of each person in a team. Each set of data (row) contains, [Hours], [Person], [EndOfWeek], [Week Number]. [Project], [ProjectType] that are in my table 'JobTime'. 37.5 hours are the hours billed per person per week. I made a measure called [WeekInterval] that is the number of distinct weeks in [Week Number]. 

Bar plot below are hours per person, per week. The Values are calculated as [Hours]/37.5/[WeekInterval]. I want the bar plot values to update as I change the the slicer to account for different week intervals. Currently, this doesnt work, as it in the formula will just act as a static value even when I adjust my slicer. 

Is there any way a Measure can change Values dynamically as a variable? 

 

Thanks,

Shun

[Anonymous]

Did you try SELECTEDVALUE in your measure? This DAX can capture the value user selected in the report

[Anonymous]

Hi Jessica,

Thanks for your response.

I tried to make a separate column that calculates a uniform value of distinctcount([Week Number]).  But this uniform value in the column doesnt change by filtering.

So if I use SELECTEDVALUE, it would be selevcting a constant value of 9, instead of a dynamic value. 

Was this what you meant?

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Please try this:

[WeekIntervals] =
CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT ( JobTime[Week Number] ), ALLSELECTED ( JobTime ) )

For more advice, please share some dummy data so that I can reproduce your scenario on my side.

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

[Anonymous]

Hi @v-yulgu-msft,

Thanks for your response. I tried using formulas below to generate the plot.

Week Interval = calculate(distinctcount(JobTime[Week Number]),ALLSELECTED(JobTime))

Values  = HoursPercentage = JobTime[Hours]/37.5/[Week Interval]

But it still doesnt update when I filter my list using Slicer. In the example below, I should get 84% on the person on top row, but I'm getting 18%. It's dividing by the total number of weeks in the list rather than the sliced number of weeks. Data and an example where slicer filters to 2 weeeks. It divides by [Week Interval]=9 instead of 2

number of week numbers that are filtered.