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sharpedogs
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6 years ago
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Counting how many people used an application?

Hi, 

I have a list of user logins and the applications they log into. I want to write a DAX that calculates the applicaitons that have had less than 5 User logins, 5 to 10 and 10 plus. From a use case, it's essentially telling me Applications that are rearely used. The data set looks like such.  

 

The DAX sould show that

Office has only 1 user, even through Chad logged in 3 times

Adobe has 3 users

Citris has 1 user

 

In my practive i thought it would be something like

Measure =  calculate( distinctcount [table name], Application name)    ----- essentially counitng unique names for each application.. But i am overlooking something?

 

APPLICATIONUSERDATE
OFFICECHADJAN 1
ADOBECHADJAN3
OFFICE CHADFEB 9
OFFICE CHADMAR 8
ADOBE MATMAR 9
ADOBEMATMAR 15
ADOBEJAMESMAR 6
CITRIXJAMESMAR 6

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago
    Whenever you are declaring variable in dax you have to type keyword "return" and after return whatever is there is the output of your statement.

    Measure=
    Var a=Calculate(distinctcount(table[user]),allexcept(table,table[application])

    Return
    If(a<=5,a,blank())

    Incase the other measure is working incase then just change var a= that summerize one statement.


    Thanks
    Pravin

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Try this:

    Measure = 
VAR v_table = SUMMARIZE( Table2, Table2[APPLICATION], Table2[USER])
RETURN
COUNTX( v_table, [APPLICATION])
    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago
      Try this

      Calculate(distinctcount(table[user]),allexcept(table,table[application])

      Thanks,
      Pravin


      If it resolves your problem mark it as a solution and give Kudos.
      • sharpedogs's avatar
        sharpedogs
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        6 years ago

        Hi,

        This essentially ansewered the question i posted, but my mistake for not being clear. I've got this far which is essentially showing the unique users per applicaiton. The second part of the ask (i forgot to post), is now I wnat to have this DAX only show applications that have 5 of fewers users.

         

        i thought i could just add ( <= 5) at the end of DAX and it woudl only show me apps with 5 or fewer unique users. But it's a True/False statement. how do i turn that back into a number? 

         

         

    • sharpedogs's avatar
      sharpedogs
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      6 years ago

      Hi, 

      i'm rather new so some of the syntex throws me off. From DAX bar when i go to put VAR... i get 2 options VAR.P and VAR.S, i'm not sure which you are referring to? As well what does "RETURN" mean? I'm new to DAX so this is a leanring experience for me as well. 

       

      Measure = 
VAR v_table = SUMMARIZE( Table2, Table2[APPLICATION], Table2[USER])
RETURN
COUNTX( v_table, [APPLICATION])

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        6 years ago
        Whenever you are declaring variable in dax you have to type keyword "return" and after return whatever is there is the output of your statement.

        Measure=
        Var a=Calculate(distinctcount(table[user]),allexcept(table,table[application])

        Return
        If(a<=5,a,blank())

        Incase the other measure is working incase then just change var a= that summerize one statement.


        Thanks
        Pravin

        If it resolves your problem mark it as a solution and give Kudos.