Trouble passing a user-specified input variable to CALCULATE function

scooper43

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In order to get user-specified input into the data model, I created a linked table where the user can define a text string for a series of application monitors as per below:


Excel 2010
BC
2Application MonitorsApp To Monitor
3Application Monitor #1Blackberry
4Application Monitor #2Skype
5Application Monitor #3
6Application Monitor #4
7Application Monitor #5
8Application Monitor #6
9Application Monitor #7
10Application Monitor #8
11Application Monitor #9
12Application Monitor #10
13Application Monitor #11
14Application Monitor #12
Inputs


Now I want to filter based on the protocol that the user specified:

I have tried:

CALCULATE (SUM (xxx), LOOKUP (Inputs[App To Monitor], Inputs [Application Monitor] = "Application Monitor #1"))

but it doesn't let me put a LOOKUP function inside a CALCULATE function. The Inputs table is not related to anything -- just a way for me to store these "global variables"

Is there a better way to do this?

I also tried the ROW function

i.e.
CALCULATE (SUM (xxx), ROW (Inputs[Application Monitor], 1))

But it gives me a funny error on the ROW command - first arguement needs to be a column -- it is !!

Thanks in advance for your help

Steve
 

Excel Facts

Format cells as time
Select range and press Ctrl+Shift+2 to format cells as time. (Shift 2 is the @ sign).
CALCULATE generally does not allow complex expressions in its comparisons.

Instead of CALCULATE(xxx, filter expr) try CALCULATE(xxx, FILTER(table, filter expr))

But only use FILTER when you have to. It generally results in slower formulas than CALCULATE so only use it when normal CALCULATE won't do the trick.
 
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