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Distinct Count with Filter- Year Minus 1,2

Dailem — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:57:54 GMT

I'm trying to get a distinct count of accounts that are filtered to only include accounts with Amount > 0. The measure below gives me that count based upon the existing slicer quarter that I have selected (I have a Calendar in my model, but then a reporting calendar which only shows quarter-end dates). So my report is filtered to 9/30/2023, for example:

Measure1 =

CALCULATE(
DISTINCTCOUNT(Table1[AccountKey]),
FILTER(Table1, Table1[Amount] > 0))

...however, I am trying to look at this same measure one year ago, two years ago, etc.. I have another measure that looks at prior year sales by filtering using the following in a calculate function:

dateadd('Calendar'[Date],-1,year)

...I have tried to add a second filter, but I cannot seem to get it to work properly. When it does work, it only returns the existing date distinct counts- not those from the prior year. How can I add a date filter on top of my existing Measure1 above to return the prior year account counts? Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Re: Distinct Count with Filter- Year Minus 1,2

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:04:43 GMT

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Re: Distinct Count with Filter- Year Minus 1,2

Jihwan_Kim — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:50:18 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure how your semantic model looks like, but please try creating the semantic model's relationship between Calendar Table and Fact Table by using Calendar[Date] column, not Calendar[QuarterEndDate] column.

Re: Distinct Count with Filter- Year Minus 1,2

Dailem — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:56:52 GMT

I was able to resolve this on my own. The way that I was able to get the result was to use the initial measure in a second measure. So first measure is:

Measure1 =

CALCULATE(
DISTINCTCOUNT(Table1[AccountKey]),
FILTER(Table1, Table1[Amount] > 0))

...second measure is

Measure2 =

CALCULATE(Measure1, dateadd('Calendar'[Date],-1,year))

...this returns the same distinct count of the accountkey column, but does so for the prior year. Thanks for all who responded!!