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marcritchie
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4 years ago

Average Distinct Count Over a set time period (ignoring date filter)

Hi there,

 

I have a report where I want to have a dynamic distinct count of users who have booked time to a project within the last month of a certain date. This is the information that I want to show with the Department Size being the dynamic count and the Capacity worked out from that:

 

The report has a filter on the reporting date (a Week Commencing date which is in a date table). The relationship is shown here:

 

 

What I want to show is basically the average distinct count of the Employee ID over the previous 4 weeks.

The problem I have is that the slicer causes the result of my measure to be fixed over time whereas I want to see over time the change in this average based on the previous 4 weeks of wherever it lies on the timeline.

 

As you can see here the Capacity (which uses the Calculated Department Size measure) remains constant over time (as I think it will always pick up the reporting date selected in the slicer). What I want is e.g. 5th December should work out the average over its previous 4 weeks (14th Nov-5th Dec), not the 4 weeks up to the reporting date. This chart isn't connected to the Reporting Date slicer but defaults to last 2 months.

 

 

This is where I am with the DAX measure:

Calculated Department Size = 
CALCULATE (
    DISTINCTCOUNT ( Timesheet[Employee ID] ),
    ALL ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] ),
    Timesheet[Booked Hours] > 0,
    'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing]
        > MAX ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] ) - 28,
    'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] < MAX ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] )
)

I don't know whether one measure can do the job or if I need to set up one to cover the reporting date and one to cover the trend over time. 

 

Thanks,

Marc

DAX Calculation
Distinct Counts

2 Replies

  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
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    4 years ago

    marcritchie , In case you can have week rank in date or week yeat tbale

     

    a new column

    Week Rank = RANKX(all('Date'),'Date'[Year Week],,ASC,Dense) //YYYYWW format

     

     

    CALCULATE(AverageX(values('Date'[Year Week]) ,calculate(DISTINCTCOUNT ( Timesheet[Employee ID] ))), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Week Rank]>=max('Date'[Week Rank])-8 && 'Date'[Week Rank]<=max('Date'[Week Rank])))

     

    Rolling 4 = CALCULATE(AverageX(values('Date'[Year Week]) ,calculate(DISTINCTCOUNT ( Timesheet[Employee ID] ))),DATESINPERIOD('Date'[Date ],MAX('Date'[Date ]),-28,DAY))

     

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    4 years ago

    Hi marcritchie ,

    Please have a try.

    Change all to allselected.

    Calculated Department Size = 
CALCULATE (
    DISTINCTCOUNT ( Timesheet[Employee ID] ),
    ALLSELECTED ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] ),
    Timesheet[Booked Hours] > 0,
    'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing]
        > MAX ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] ) - 28,
    'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] < MAX ( 'Reporting Date'[Week Commencing] )
)

     

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