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mforest
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if two values are the same return value of 1

Hello! 

 

Hoping someone can help with the DAX formula I need. I've been searching and trying, but I just cannot seem to get it right. 

 

I unpivoted a table of appointments and now have several hundred "duplicate" appointments. I need to know a count of total appointments that I will use as a measure on several visualizations. Since people can come more than once, distinct count does not work for this case. I essentially am hoping for a measure that says, if "person name" and "date of appointment" are the same, view that as 1 value. For the table value below, I would hope that the measure would return a value of 3. 

 

Person Name

Date of Appointment

Person 1

June 1

Person 1

June 1

Person 1

June 1

Person 2

June 1

Person 2

June 1

Person 1

June 3

Person 1

June 3

 

Thanks!

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mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
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You can try this one, replacing Table with your actual table name

 

NewMeasure = COUNTROWS(SUMMARIZE(Table, Table[Person Name], Table[Date of Appointment}))

 

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat





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mahoneypat
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Microsoft Employee

You can try this one, replacing Table with your actual table name

 

NewMeasure = COUNTROWS(SUMMARIZE(Table, Table[Person Name], Table[Date of Appointment}))

 

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat





Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution! Kudos are also appreciated!

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@mahoneypa HoosierBI on YouTube


This seemed to work! Thanks! I also realized I could concatenate the two columns and then create a measure of distinct values on that column. 

 

Thanks again!

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