topic Re: Calculate with multiple criteria in DAX Commands and Tips

Calculate with multiple criteria

lyonslat — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:06:09 GMT

Hi All,

First post, so apologies if it doesn't make a huge amount of sense, but I'm really hoping someone can help me.

Relatively new to DAX, but very familiar with Excel, so most of my logical thinking (& language) comes from there.

Problem

I need to count the number of distinct transactions...

Transactions = DISTINCTCOUNT('Event1'[check_number])

...that contain "Food" AND "Beer".

The data I have is formatted in the following table:

profit_center_id	Profit_center_name	check_number	revenue_category_name	ItemQty
15	M1 Food	123456	Food	1
15	M1 Food	123456	Beer	2
15	M1 Food	123456	Misc	1
16	M2 Beer	234567	Food	1
17	M3 Beer	345678	Beer	1
17	M3 Beer	345678	Food	2

I need more than this, but if I have an answer to this, I can figure the rest out!

Thank you!

Re: Calculate with multiple criteria

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:22:13 GMT

Calculate (Distinctcount(table[column]),filter(table,containstring(table[columm_name],"food") || containstring(table[columm_name],"beer")))

Thanks
Pravin

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Re: Calculate with multiple criteria

lyonslat — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:14:51 GMT

Hi Pravin,

Thanks for your input, it's much appreciated.

Unfortunatley this didn't quite work the way I expected it to.

The result I'm looking for is to show the number of transactions that contain both Food and Beer. The result that your suggestion put forward, gives me a number of the transactions that contain either food or beer and totals them up.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Re: Calculate with multiple criteria

lyonslat — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:38:59 GMT

The best way I can describe this is if you imagine a venn diagram of transactions.

One side has food transactions, the other has beer, and in the middle you have the number of distinct transactions that contain both food and beer.

Re: Calculate with multiple criteria

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:39:03 GMT

hi lyonslat

Create below measure

Flag =

var food=CALCULATE(COUNT(Sheet1[profit_center_id]),allexcept(Sheet1,Sheet1[profit_center_id]),Sheet1[revenue_category_name]="FOOD")

Var beer=CALCULATE(COUNT(Sheet1[profit_center_id]),allexcept(Sheet1,Sheet1[profit_center_id]),Sheet1[revenue_category_name]="BEER")

return

IF(food>0 && beer>0,1,0)

And add this measure to visual level filter of table and set it to 1.

Thanks & regards,
Pravin Wattamwar
www.linkedin.com/in/pravin-p-wattamwar

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Re: Calculate with multiple criteria

HotChilli — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:27:23 GMT

You could use INTERSECT in the following

MeasureFoodAndBeer = VAR _FoodChecks = CALCULATETABLE (VALUES ( TableBill[check_number] ), TableBill[revenue_category_name] = "Beer") VAR _BeerChecks = CALCULATETABLE (VALUES ( TableBill[check_number] ), TableBill[revenue_category_name] = "Food") RETURN COUNTROWS(INTERSECT(_BeerChecks, _FoodChecks))

If you want to break this down and test it, you can materialise each of the tables by creating a table (New Table) with the CALCULATETABLE code. You can then look at the table in data view.