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samihuq
Helper III
Helper III

Count Item of a Table

Hi,

I have a table names "Payment" as follows with four filed. 

I need to generate the fourth coulumn CountItem.

In excel it was farely simple using the countif(), how do we do it here using dax?

 

 

Item Date Amount CountItem

A 01-Jan-2018 10  3

A 02-Jan-2018 10 3

A 03-Jan-2018 10 3

B 01-Jan-2018 10 2

B 02-Jan-2018 10 2

C 01-Jan-2018 10 2

C 02-Jan-2018 10 2

 

 

Thanks,
Sami

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

HI Sami @samihuq

 

CountItem =
VAR myitem = TableName[Item]
RETURN
    COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( TableName, TableName[Item] = myitem ) )

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Anonymous
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@samihuq,

You can also use the following DAX.

CountItem = CALCULATE(COUNT(Table[Item]),ALLEXCEPT(Table,Table[Item]))



Regards,

Lydia

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Anonymous
Not applicable

@samihuq,

You can also use the following DAX.

CountItem = CALCULATE(COUNT(Table[Item]),ALLEXCEPT(Table,Table[Item]))



Regards,

Lydia

Thanks @Anonymous your solution also worked like a charm 🙂

Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

HI Sami @samihuq

 

CountItem =
VAR myitem = TableName[Item]
RETURN
    COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( TableName, TableName[Item] = myitem ) )

Thanks @Zubair_Muhammad that worked like a charm 🙂

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