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SBePicas
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2 years ago
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Counting column items based on column selection

I have created three independent columns What I'd like to do is to select a column and get the number of items.  For exmple if I select Col1, I get 3 but selecting COL3 would get 6.   May be ...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    HI SBePicas,

    I'd like to suggest you create a new table with three field names and use it as source of slicer.

    NewTable =
DATATABLE ( "ColName", STRING, { { "Col1" }, { "Col2" }, { "Col3" } } )

    After these steps, you can create a measure formula with switch function to check current selected value and redirect to different calculation expressions.

     

    DC based on selection =
VAR selected =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( NewTable[ColName] )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        selected,
        "Col1", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col1] ) ),
        "Col2", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col2] ) ),
        "Col3", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col3] ) ),
        COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col1] ) )
    )

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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SBePicas
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

Sorry, still learning the proper terminology.

I have one table with 3 columns.  Each field (column) is dragged into the report editor and thus I have three visuals in the report editor.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
2 years ago

HI SBePicas,

I'd like to suggest you create a new table with three field names and use it as source of slicer.

NewTable =
DATATABLE ( "ColName", STRING, { { "Col1" }, { "Col2" }, { "Col3" } } )

After these steps, you can create a measure formula with switch function to check current selected value and redirect to different calculation expressions.

 

DC based on selection =
VAR selected =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( NewTable[ColName] )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        selected,
        "Col1", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col1] ) ),
        "Col2", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col2] ) ),
        "Col3", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col3] ) ),
        COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table1[Col1] ) )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng