Level measures (including percent to total)

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What is the syntax for level measures in DV?

For example let's say I have some sales data by region, what is the syntax to get total sales across all regions, no matter what the filtering is.

This could be used to create a percent to total by region measure  : sales/total sales

Olivier Sinquin · Answer

yes that's right and I also learnt the advanced version of it , where we add a BY clause (e.g.  Sales/SUM(Sales by Whatever) )

Luke Sharma · Answer

Hello there,

From the sounds of it you should just be able to do Sales/SUM(Sales) - The SUM(Sales) should give you the total number of sales in the table. This should ignore the filter settings for the calculation.

Please let me know how you get on!