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Hi,
I would like to count consecutive values with a filter as per below example.
CustomerID OrderNumber Registered Result
1 A Yes 1
2 B No 0
3 C Yes 1
1 D Yes 2
2 E No 0
1 F Yes 3
3 G Yes 2
Thanks in advance
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Hi @chriser
Try this for a calculated column:
Result =
IF (
Table1[Registered] = "Yes",
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( Table1[CustomerID] ),
ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[CustomerID] ),
Table1[OrderNumber] <= EARLIER ( Table1[OrderNumber] )
),
0
)
@chriser -
Power Query as a possible solution:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUXIE4sjUYqVYnWglIyDbCYj98sFcYyDTGUkapNwFTbkrQjlI2g1JGqTdHcaPBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [CustomerID = _t, OrderNumber = _t, Registered = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"CustomerID", Int64.Type}, {"OrderNumber", type text}, {"Registered", type text}}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"CustomerID"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [CustomerID=number, OrderNumber=text, Registered=text]}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn([Count],"Trans", 1,1)),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", {"OrderNumber", "Registered", "Trans"}, {"OrderNumber", "Registered", "Trans"}),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Expanded Custom", "Result", each if [Registered] = "Yes" then [Trans] else 0),
#"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Added Custom1",{{"OrderNumber", Order.Ascending}}),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Sorted Rows",{"Count", "Trans"})
in
#"Removed Columns"
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Hi @chriser
Try this for a calculated column:
Result =
IF (
Table1[Registered] = "Yes",
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( Table1[CustomerID] ),
ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[CustomerID] ),
Table1[OrderNumber] <= EARLIER ( Table1[OrderNumber] )
),
0
)
Thanks @AlB! Works really well, although this approach is memory hungry. My poor Surface failed to deliver results on over 1m rows, but after filtering table to 8k rows it worked well. Thanks a lot!
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