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koko_pbi
Frequent Visitor

Discrepancy in Measure Results Between Different Visualization Types

hello everyone, 

i need your help , 

 

I'm encountering an issue with a DAX measure in Power BI where the results differ between different types of visualizations on the same report page. The measure is intended to count occurrences of a specific keyword within a text column. However, I'm observing inconsistent behavior when comparing card, table, and graph visualizations.


- i did try with two dax function , same result,  

LocationCount = 
var location_table = 
    FILTER(
        'all content', 
        CONTAINSSTRING(
            'all content'[Location(s)], 
            SELECTEDVALUE(
                'location list'[Location(s)]
                )
            )
        )
var location_number = 
   COUNTROWS(location_table)


return 
  location_number 

 

VAR LocationPartsCount =
SUMX(
    'all content',
    IF(
        SEARCH(
              SELECTEDVALUE('location list'[Location(s)]),
                'all content'[Location(s)], 1, 0) > 0,
            1,
            0
        )
    )
RETURN LocationPartsCount

 

 

- In a card visualization, the measure seems to work correctly, providing the expected count of occurrences.
- However, when the same measure is used in a table or graph visualization, it only counts occurrences where the keyword is  equal (=) and not when it's part of a larger text (e.g., "Mongolia|United States|other county").

=>  the keywords are in separate table
but what is weird in this case, is that it woks perfectly for other column,  like tags column, or names 
but not for location.

let say : 
i have 
col1        col2       col3        col4            location (as col 5)
value1.1   value2.1    value3.1    value4.1  Mongolia|United States
value1.2   value2.2    value3.2    value4.2  Mongolia

value1.3   value2.3    value3.3    value4.3  Mongolia|Germany

value1.4   value2.4    value3.4    value4.4  Mongolia|France

 

through my dax measure i want to calculate the occurencies for each country for exemple ,

i did extract all unique country from this col to list, that i convert into a sigle table col 
then i check if a country in the list is in the location(as col 5)
country list table
country (col)

Mongolia

United States

Germany

France
United Kingdom
...

 

 

but my measure count only line where the country = to the country in location (it seems like it use "=" and not "in" operator) even with "containsstring" 

it will count me 

Mongolia  -> 1 ,   but the country is repeated 4 times 

 

i do use the same function for other cols , with the same process, and it works fine , but here not !!! 

if you have any idea 

thank you, 

if i can expliain more, plz tell me

 

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koko_pbi
Frequent Visitor

hey, 

i did found where the problem was , 

power bi did create from alone a relation between my tables , what caused the misscount

good day ! 

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koko_pbi
Frequent Visitor

hey, 

i did found where the problem was , 

power bi did create from alone a relation between my tables , what caused the misscount

good day ! 

koko_pbi
Frequent Visitor

no one knows what wrong ??

i did test somethings 

i think  there is some metadata in there, 

 

because when i create myself the coutries and enter the value into new table , iget the correct count ,

but with the automation process, United States for exemple get only where United States is as alone word, but not within a list United States|France|Germany

 

i did text.clean , change the type and use other extract process, always the wrong result if it comes from the main table !!! really weird 
do you have any idea how i can detect the metadata or delete them ?

thanks

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