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3 years ago
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Calculated column returning wrong value

Hey, im having problem with a calculated column. I have a column with ID CLIENTE (more than 50K lines) including repeated values and I need to do a new column that works with a kind of COUNTIF (retur...
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    johnt75
    3 years ago

    Try

    flag cliente =
DIVIDE (
    1,
    CALCULATE (
        COUNTROWS ( BASE_BANCO2_20221223 ),
        ALLEXCEPT ( BASE_BANCO2_20221223, BASE_BANCO2_20221223[ID CLIENTE] )
    ),
    0
)
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Anonymous
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3 years ago

It worked!! but why can you explain what's the point of using countrows and using allexcept? 

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johnt75
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3 years ago

COUNTROWS is just a bit more optimised I think, so I tend to use that rather than COUNT.

The real key is the ALLEXCEPT. When you are creating a calculated column every column in the table is part of the filter, ALLEXCEPT removes the extra columns and you can just keep the columns that you need to be in the filter. This also helps to avoid circular dependency errors if you add multiple calculated columns to the same table.

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    Anonymous
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for the solution and explanation!!