Display employee with highest labor for each category

[cmccully]

I have a report that will display the highest labor time for each category. I also want to be able to display the employee name associated with that entry.

What I am hoping for is a visual similar to the middle one on the bottom that shows each category and then shows the employee name that coresponds to the highest labor entry for each filtered category. I dont really care if the visual is a table or a graph as long as I can display the category and a name.

Here is a link to my pbix file: 

PMB Average Time By Category 

[Tahreem24 · Accepted solution]

HI @cmccully ,

Create a measure like below to get the employee name whose labor hour is highest among rest.

Top Employee = MAXX(TOPN(1,VALUES(Query1[EMPLOYEE_NAME]),CALCULATE(Sum(Query1[LABOR_HOURS])),DESC),Query1[EMPLOYEE_NAME])

Please give THUMPS UP for support and also mark this as a solution so other can take help from it.

[cmccully]

That worked perfectly, thank you!

Can you walk me through the DAX expression? I am trying to learn but still find DAX pretty confusing.

[Tahreem24]

Hi @cmccully ,

Top Employee = MAXX(TOPN(1,VALUES(Query1[EMPLOYEE_NAME]),CALCULATE(Sum(Query1[LABOR_HOURS])),DESC),Query1[EMPLOYEE_NAME])

Basically TOPN function is used to give to top N rows from specified table. In your scenario I put 1 as a first parameter of TOPN so it will return top 1 value of emplyee whose labor hour is highest among rest employee. 

TOPN function basically return result in the form of table so put this into MAXX function as a first parameter cause it will iterate thorugh the entire table and return the value specfied in second parameter of MAXX i.e. Employee name.

I will really appreciate your KUDOS for support!

Thanks!