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dnewton
8 years agoHelper II
Creating an average from a measure?
Hi All, I have a measure "CountCalls" - this calculated based on 'COUNTROWS' and tells me how many calls have been recieved. I'm trying to create an average of 'CountCalls' but it's not possi...
jthomson
8 years agoSolution Sage
What are you wanting to create an average in relation to? Your question makes no sense without additional context. If it was something like, say, average calls per day, you can just look to distinctcount the different number of dates in your table and then divide your measure by the result
- dnewton8 years agoHelper II
Apologies, yes it would be the average from a period of time which maybe daily, weekly, monthly etc...
The existing measure uses COUNTROWS to count each row in my table and then returns the total number of calls, hence 'CountCalls'. I need to try and work out the average from 'CountCalls' but this is not as straightforward as AVERAGE(CountCalls) since 'CountCalls' is just a measure not a column.