Formula for Active Contacts Measure - Newbie help!

[Anonymous]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to PowerBI, but after searching through the internet i haven't been able to find the solution to my problem.

I need help with my DAX formula for a measure of active contacts in our system.  The formula I was given by a colleague isn't working, and I can't seem to find out why.

Active Contacts (Accum) =

CALCULATE(

COUNT('CE vwContact'[CreatedOn]),

IF('CE vwContact'[CreatedOn] <= MAX('BI vwCalendar'[Date]),

AND('CE vwContact'[Rics_LapsedDate]=BLANK

)))

After searching around and looking at other ways to doing it, I've arrived at the following, but PBI is saying there's an error in line 3, but I don't know why:

Active Contacts (Accum) =

CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('CE vwContact'[Rics_contactno])

RETURNIF('CE vwContact'[CreatedOn] >= TODAY() AND ('CE vwContact'[Rics_LapsedDate] <= TODAY())))

Can anyone help me with it?

Cheers!!

DaveH

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi  @Anonymous ,

I created some data:

Here are the steps you can follow：

1. Create measure.

Active Contacts (Accum) =
CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('CE vwContact'[Rics_contactno]),
FILTER(ALL('CE vwContact'),'CE vwContact'[CreatedOn]>=TODAY()&&'CE vwContact'[Rics_LapsedDate]<=TODAY()))

2. Result:

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , check this this very similar to active employee in this blog

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/HR-Analytics-Active-Employee-Hire-and-Termination-trend/ba-p/882970

If this does not help
Can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.