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"A single value column cannot be determined" error in summary table
I have a table which contain duplicated date column(table 1).
| Table1 | |||
| ID | Date | column3 | columN |
| 1 | 30 March 2020 | ||
| 2 | 30 March 2020 | ||
| 3 | 5 April 2020 | ||
| ... | |||
| ... | |||
| m | 1 June 2020 |
I created Table 2 using
Table 2 = SUMMARIZE(Table 1, Table 1[Date], "count", COUNT(Table 1[Date]))
| Table2 | |
| Date | count |
| 30 March 2020 | 2 |
| 5 April 2020 | 1 |
| .. | |
| 1 June 2020 | 5 |
So, Table 2 will have unique values for Date column. There are missing values in Date column.
Now, trying to create Table 3 to make the Date column continues and put the count column value will be taken from previous date for missing date.
Table3 =
ADDCOLUMNS(
CALENDAR(MIN(Table2[Date]), MAX(Table2[Date])),
"count",
LOOKUPVALUE(
Table2[count],
Table2[Date],
MAXX(
FILTER(Table2, Table2[Date] <= EARLIER([Date])),
[Date]
)
)
)
But getting error: "A single value for column in table cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result"
I assume that, this is because Table2 is a derived from Table1 where Date column contain duplicate values.
Is there any way to fix this? Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Hi hpoyil
The formula works fine on my side, kindly check the attachment:
The error always happens when you're trying to create a measure instead of a calculated column. you might provide the dummy pbix that we can check it further.
2 Replies
- v-diye-msftCommunity Support
Hi hpoyil
The formula works fine on my side, kindly check the attachment:
The error always happens when you're trying to create a measure instead of a calculated column. you might provide the dummy pbix that we can check it further.
- auieRegular Visitor
"The error always happens when you're trying to create a measure instead of a calculated column."
- Exactly the issue I was having. Thank you for pointing this out!