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Hi Community I need help with dax
I have a table with IDs and Category:
| ID | Category |
| 1 | A |
| 2 | B |
| 3 | C |
| 4 | D |
| 5 | A |
| 5 | B |
| 5 | C |
| 6 | A |
| 6 | C |
| 7 | B |
| 7 | C |
| 8 | A |
| 8 | B |
| 8 | D |
| 8 | E |
| 9 | A |
Now, when we count the distinct IDs in Category B, we need to exclude the IDs which were counted in A (i.e Distinct count of IDs in Catergory B should have a result of 3 and not 4 because the ID 8 is already counted in Cat. A once)
Please HELPP.
@RK9009 , Using distinct at the final stage should work better, if the solution works
countrows(distinct(except(selectcolumns(filter(Table,Table[Category] ="B"), "ID", Table[ID]),selectcolumns(filter(Table,Table[Category] ="A"), "ID", Table[ID]))))
@amitchandak ,tried this one seem like its working in terms of count but the ID counted in A are still showing up in B.
Thank you for your response
@RK9009 - I mocked this up in PBIX, Page 11. I missed a couple ALL statements.
Count in B Measure =
VAR __As = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER(ALL('Table (13)'),[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
VAR __Bs = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER(ALL('Table (13)'),[Category]="B"),"ID",[ID]))
RETURN
IF(MAX([Category])="B",COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(EXCEPT(__Bs,__As))),BLANK())
Fixes the showing up in A problem. PBIX below sig. The answer is actually 2, not 3 because 5 and 8 are both in A according to your test data.
@RK9009 Try:
Count in B Measure =
VAR __As = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
VAR __Bs = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
RETURN
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(EXCEPT(__Bs,As)))
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