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walkeras
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9 years ago
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Count the frequency of a boolean value

Hello everyone,   I have a database that stores the boolean values of a field that was collected. I am trying to count the frequency that the value appears i.e. the strucutre looks something like t...
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  • walkeras's avatar
    walkeras
    9 years ago

    Hey,

     

    Last night I had a brainwave and jumped out of bed and got it working using the following formula:

     

    TrueCount = COUNTAX(FILTER('Table',[Element_A]=TRUE()),TRUE())

     

    Thanks for the additional inputs as well, I will have a play with those other suggestions to see how else I might be able to solve the problem.

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Greg_Deckler
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9 years ago

Well, depends on whether his true/false columns are text or boolean. You can't directly COUNT true/false columns if that's what he has. You can solve that by adding in Index field in the query and counting that instead but either method should work. And using the TRUE() function in place of "True".

walkeras's avatar
walkeras
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9 years ago

Hey,

 

Last night I had a brainwave and jumped out of bed and got it working using the following formula:

 

TrueCount = COUNTAX(FILTER('Table',[Element_A]=TRUE()),TRUE())

 

Thanks for the additional inputs as well, I will have a play with those other suggestions to see how else I might be able to solve the problem.

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    wmjhca
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    7 years ago

    Worked like a charm for me! Thanks!!!

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    Bhavana_k
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    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    My scenario is something similar but I have many conditions. Like below
    if category="Good" then count(Column)

    else if category = "bad" then count(Column)

    else if category ="neutral" then count(Column)

    else

    blank()

    END

    How do i do this?
    I tried it with if and switch condition but its not working.
    CheckCount =
    IF([Category]="Danger",COUNT(Table1[Column1]),
    IF([Category]="Bad",COUNT(Table1[Column1]),
    IF([Category]="Good",COUNT(Table1[Column1]),
    IF([Category]="Neutral",COUNT(Table1[Column1]),
    IF([Category]="very Good",COUNT(Table1[Column1])
    ,BLANK())
    ) ) ) )

    And this category is a measure which I have made. But now i just want a count of these categories so i can make some pie ot donought chart.

    Thank you,
    Bhavana