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MattTrollope
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1 year ago
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Returning distinct values using a Measure

I need my Date Table to operate on both the Join and Close dates of an entity to capture the number of contacts with a role on a given date. As I can only have one active relationship, I'm using a Me...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi MattTrollope ,

    You can create a measure as below to get the number of distinct contacts, please find the details in the attachment.

    Number of distinct Contacts = 
VAR _date =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Date'[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Role'[ContactID] ),
        FILTER ( 'Role', 'Role'[JoinDate] <= _date && 'Role'[CloseDate] >= _date )
    )

    Best Regards

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MattTrollope
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1 year ago

Contact_Role 

Thank you for your reply.

I have attached link to example pbix file demonstrating the problem. I'm trying to find the number of distinct Contacts with active Roles on a given date (not the number of roles each Contact has on the given date). The example shows the number of roles each contact has on the date. In the screenshot below I want to show 1 DistinctActiveRole for each Contact in the lower table.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
1 year ago

Hi MattTrollope ,

You can create a measure as below to get the number of distinct contacts, please find the details in the attachment.

Number of distinct Contacts = 
VAR _date =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Date'[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Role'[ContactID] ),
        FILTER ( 'Role', 'Role'[JoinDate] <= _date && 'Role'[CloseDate] >= _date )
    )

Best Regards

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    MattTrollope
    Frequent Visitor
    1 year ago

    Thank you very much for your asistance. This now solves my problem, I wondered if a different approach might be the solution, and you have provided it for me, thank you again.