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RShackelford
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Yet Another Consecutive Values Question

I've seen this question asked quite a bit, but I can't seem to find a solution that works for me or doesn't thoroughly confuse me. 

I'd like to create a calculated column that counts consecutive "bad" indicators. I don't care so much about single instances, good or bad. I'd like an ouput similar to the Result column below.  

 

If measure would work better, that's fine with me. But it's a calculation I'm going to use quite a bit and, ultimately, I'd like to be able to pull some numbers that say "we had X amount of 'consecutive bads' this month on Y amount of servers and the average number of consecutives (in terms of duration, 2.3 consecutive bads or whatever) was Z". 

 

ServerDateIndicatorResult
A1/1/2021GoodDon't care
A1/2/2021BadDon’t care
A1/3/2021GoodDon't care
A1/4/2021Bad2 Bads
A1/5/2021Bad2 Bads
B1/1/2021GoodDon't care
B1/2/2021GoodDon't care
B1/3/2021GoodDon't care
B1/4/2021BadDon't care
B1/5/2021GoodDon't care
C1/1/2021BadDon't care
C1/2/2021GoodDon't care
C1/3/2021Bad3 Bads
C1/4/2021Bad3 Bads
C1/5/2021Bad3 Bads
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Hi, @RShackelford 

Thank you for your feedback.

Please check the below.

 

Picture1.png

 

Step one Second Version =
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR currentdate = Data[Date]
VAR flagcumulate =
IF (
Data[Indicator] = "good",
BLANK (),
SUMX (
ADDCOLUMNS (
SUMMARIZE (
FILTER ( Data, Data[Server] = currentserver && Data[Date] <= currentdate ),
Data[Server],
Data[Date],
Data[Indicator]
),
"@flag", IF ( Data[Indicator] = "good", 1, 0 )
),
[@flag]
)
)
RETURN
flagcumulate
 
 
Result CC Second Version =
VAR currentstepone = Data[Step one Second Version]
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR newtable =
FILTER (
Data,
Data[Server] = currentserver
&& Data[Step one Second Version] == currentstepone
)
VAR result =
COUNTROWS ( newtable )
RETURN
IF ( Data[Indicator] = "good" || result <= 1, "Don't care", result & "Bads" )
 
 
 
 

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Jihwan_Kim
Super User
Super User

Hi, @RShackelford 

Please check the below picture and the sample pbix file's link down below. It is for creating a new column.

 

Picture1.png

 

Step one CC =
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR rankbydate =
RANKX ( FILTER ( data, Data[Server] = currentserver ), Data[Date],, DESC )
VAR flag =
IF (
Data[Indicator] = "Bad"
&& MAXX (
FILTER (
Data,
Data[Server] = currentserver
&& RANKX ( FILTER ( data, Data[Server] = currentserver ), Data[Date],, DESC ) = rankbydate + 1
),
Data[Indicator]
) = "Bad",
1
)
VAR flagtwo =
IF (
Data[Indicator] = "Bad"
&& MAXX (
FILTER (
Data,
Data[Server] = currentserver
&& RANKX ( FILTER ( data, Data[Server] = currentserver ), Data[Date],, DESC ) = rankbydate - 1
),
Data[Indicator]
) = "Bad",
1
)
RETURN
flag + flagtwo
 
 
Result CC =
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR steponeCCcountrow =
COUNTROWS (
FILTER ( Data, Data[Server] = currentserver && Data[Step one CC] <> BLANK () )
)
RETURN
IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( Data[Step one CC] ), steponeCCcountrow & " Bads" )
 
 

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Thank You @Jihwan_Kim

 

That worked for the dataset I provided in the example. However, I need to separate out the different consecutive instances within the same server (See server C in the table below). My apologies, I should have specified this in the original example. 

 

ServerDateIndicatorResult
A1/1/2021GoodDon't care
A1/2/2021BadDon’t care
A1/3/2021GoodDon't care
A1/4/2021Bad2 Bads
A1/5/2021Bad2 Bads
B1/1/2021GoodDon't care
B1/2/2021GoodDon't care
B1/3/2021GoodDon't care
B1/4/2021BadDon't care
B1/5/2021GoodDon't care
C1/1/2021BadDon't care
C1/2/2021GoodDon't care
C1/3/2021Bad3 Bads
C1/4/2021Bad3 Bads
C1/5/2021Bad3 Bads
C1/6/2021GoodDon't care
C1/7/2021Bad2 Bads
C1/8/2021Bad2 Bads

Hi, @RShackelford 

Thank you for your feedback.

Please check the below.

 

Picture1.png

 

Step one Second Version =
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR currentdate = Data[Date]
VAR flagcumulate =
IF (
Data[Indicator] = "good",
BLANK (),
SUMX (
ADDCOLUMNS (
SUMMARIZE (
FILTER ( Data, Data[Server] = currentserver && Data[Date] <= currentdate ),
Data[Server],
Data[Date],
Data[Indicator]
),
"@flag", IF ( Data[Indicator] = "good", 1, 0 )
),
[@flag]
)
)
RETURN
flagcumulate
 
 
Result CC Second Version =
VAR currentstepone = Data[Step one Second Version]
VAR currentserver = Data[Server]
VAR newtable =
FILTER (
Data,
Data[Server] = currentserver
&& Data[Step one Second Version] == currentstepone
)
VAR result =
COUNTROWS ( newtable )
RETURN
IF ( Data[Indicator] = "good" || result <= 1, "Don't care", result & "Bads" )
 
 
 
 

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@Jihwan_Kim 

Thank You! That's exactly what I needed.

Your solution is much cleaner than many I've seen. 

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