Ranking with filtering

[kcville]

Hello

I have a large table with names, departments and a field with a measure. 

I would like to Rank the measure for each name after selecting a department.  But I want to maintain the Rank result when I filter on an individual name.

Currently what happens when I select a name the table is filtered and the Rank result goes to 1 as there is the only row. 

I want to Rank on the underlying data rather than what is in the table, I know I could do this in script but I have lots of departments and lots of measures so would be too complicated.

I hope this makes sense.

Kelly

[Taoufiq_Zarra]

Hi,

can you sahre a sample and the expected output ?

[kcville]

Example data:

Name  Department Sales Rank

John           Sales                10        1

Peter          Sales                11        2

Paul          Sales                  12        3

I would like to filter to Paul and see the following:

Name  Department Sales Rank

Paul     Sales                12       3

What I see at the moment

Name  Department Sales Rank

Paul     Sales                12       1

[tresesco]

If you are using any aggregation function for calculating rank, you could use set analysis to disregard the selection and keep the rank fixed. like:

Rank(TOTAL Sum({<Name>}Sales))*Avg(1)

[Taoufiq_Zarra]

If I consider the following example:

Data:
load * inline [
Name , Department ,Sales

John , Sales , 10

Peter , Sales , 11

Paul , Sales , 12
];

In dimension :Name, Departement

Expression: sum(Sales)

aggr(rank(total sum({1} Sales)),Name,Department)

for rank

output :

[kcville]

Thank you both so much, I used a combination of both your methods...

aggr(rank(total sum({<Name>} Sales)),Name, Department)