Comparison of filters

DAX functions with the prefix “ALL” are used to engage or disengage filters in Power Pivot reports. These may be implicit filters, we have created by dragging dimensions in Filters field, but more often it comes to interactive filters- slicers and timeline, we use to filter Pivot Tables. The recipe that follows is about a report with a comparative review of these functions for their better understanding.

Filter functions

DAX has a class of functions that perform data filtering. For given arguments, as a result, they return filtered table. Filter functions are usually used in combination with another DAX function, and their specificity is to allow creating measures that ignore the limitations of existing filters in a Pivot Table, as well as interactive filters such as Slicers and Timeline. In this recipe you will be briefly acquainted with these functions.