How to Solve Issues When You Nest Measures While Overwriting the Same Filter
Power BIHow to Solve Issues When You Nest Measures While Overwriting the Same FilterIn DAX, we reuse existing measures all the time when writing new measures. Let's go into the rabbit hole of this function and discover some secretsSalvatore Cagliari · 8 min readHow to use FILTER in DAX the correct wayThe FILTER() function in DAX can be challenging to tame. Here are some examples on how to use it and how not.Salvatore Cagliari · 11 min readHow to Get Performance Data from Power BI with DAX StudioSometimes we have a slow Report, and we need to figure out why.
- ▪Power BIHow to Solve Issues When You Nest Measures While Overwriting the Same FilterIn DAX, we reuse existing measures all the time when writing new measures.
- ▪Let's go into the rabbit hole of this function and discover some secretsSalvatore Cagliari · 8 min readHow to use FILTER in DAX the correct wayThe FILTER() function in DAX can be challenging to tame.
- ▪Here are some examples on how to use it and how not.Salvatore Cagliari · 11 min readHow to Get Performance Data from Power BI with DAX StudioSometimes we have a slow Report, and we need to figure out why.
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Power BIHow to Solve Issues When You Nest Measures While Overwriting the Same FilterIn DAX, we reuse existing measures all the time when writing new measures. What happens when we write a measure based on another measure and try to change a filter already set in the nested measure?Salvatore CagliariSeptember 30, 20267 min readPhoto by path digital on UnsplashIntroductionWe nest Measures all the time.Usually, I create a base measure with the aggregation and some base operation, like scaling.Afterwards, I create measures that apply filters or time intelligence operations based on that base measure.This is nothing new.But sometimes I have a measure that applies some filters, and I need another measure with a slightly different filter.In such cases, I prefer nesting the first measure and…
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