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Anonymous
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Conditional deduplication based on multiple columns

Hi everyone,   I need to write a very specific deduplication query and I am wondering if you can help me out. We have an ecommerce site and I am getting a daily CSV file that has transactional info...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    Try this code.

    Remove Duplicate =
SUMMARIZE (
    FILTER (
        'Table',
        IF (
            VAR _COUNTROW =
                CALCULATE (
                    COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ),
                    FILTER (
                        ALL ( 'Table' ),
                        'Table'[Master Order Number] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Master Order Number] )
                            && 'Table'[Item ID] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Item ID] )
                    )
                )
            RETURN
                _COUNTROW > 1,
            'Table'[RANK] <> 1
                || 'Table'[Invoice Date] <> BLANK (),
            'Table'[RANK] = 1
        )
    ),
    'Table'[Order Number],
    'Table'[Master Order Number],
    'Table'[Order Date],
    'Table'[Invoice Date],
    'Table'[Item ID]
)

    Result is as below.

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi Anonymous, thank you so much for the reply and for taking the time to help me out. I think this gets me closer but it's not quite what I need. I may not have explained it very clearly, but I only want to suppress rows when the following conditions are met:

 

  • There are duplicate Item IDs within a Master Order # AND those duplicate Item IDs contain a blank/NULL invoice date.

So consider the screenshot below. The ones highlighted in green should be removed, and the white ones left alone, which your script did perfectly.

 

But the yellow ones I highlighted, which are part of a different Master Order #, should not be removed because they do not have duplicate Item IDs nor do they have a blank Invoice Date. So I don't want to remove the yellow rows. Does this help clarify what I am asking for?

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

Add a filter in calculated table code.

Remove Duplicate =
SUMMARIZE (
    FILTER ( 'Table', OR ( 'Table'[RANK] <> 1, 'Table'[Invoice Date] <> BLANK () ) ),
    'Table'[Order Number],
    'Table'[Master Order Number],
    'Table'[Order Date],
    'Table'[Invoice Date],
    'Table'[Item ID]
)

Result is as below.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Anonymous -- even closer but one thing is still missing. I still want to count orders that were placed but not yet invoiced. Only when there were duplicate Item IDs within a Master Order # that had blank Invoice Dates did I want to discard them from the total.

     

    Consider the Master Order # below, #10007106. It does not have an invoice date (yet) but does not have any duplicate Item IDs. In other words, it has not yet been invoiced but has not been double counted. It should still be counted in total sales (I created a separate metric for invoiced sales).

     

    So how could I modify either the deduplication table or the rank column to account for this? Again, thanks for all your help and for sticking with me on this one.

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      4 years ago

      Hi Anonymous 

      Try this code.

      Remove Duplicate =
SUMMARIZE (
    FILTER (
        'Table',
        IF (
            VAR _COUNTROW =
                CALCULATE (
                    COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ),
                    FILTER (
                        ALL ( 'Table' ),
                        'Table'[Master Order Number] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Master Order Number] )
                            && 'Table'[Item ID] = EARLIER ( 'Table'[Item ID] )
                    )
                )
            RETURN
                _COUNTROW > 1,
            'Table'[RANK] <> 1
                || 'Table'[Invoice Date] <> BLANK (),
            'Table'[RANK] = 1
        )
    ),
    'Table'[Order Number],
    'Table'[Master Order Number],
    'Table'[Order Date],
    'Table'[Invoice Date],
    'Table'[Item ID]
)

      Result is as below.

      Best Regards,
      Rico Zhou

       

      If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        4 years ago

        Thank you very much Anonymous this has done the trick. Appreciate your expertise and assistance.