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JLYT
Frequent Visitor

DAX Help!

Hi all,

 

I am a newbie here and still trying to learn all DAX expressions.

I have a scenraio where my table contains all users' purchase records, for example:

User IDPurchase Amount
001$50
001$150
002$500
002$30

I would like to calculate the total purchase amount per user for visuals. 

Shall I adding a new measure or a new table? If a measure is okay, what would the DAX code be?

I tried

User Total Amount Purchased = CALCULATE(SUMX(sales,sales[purchaseamount]),sales[userid])

But it doesn't work?

 

Any advice would be appreciated! 

 

Thanks
Jennifer

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JLYT
Frequent Visitor

Hi,

Silly me!!!Thank you so much!

I have 2 calculated measures and a calculated column based on the 2 calculated measure.
Then I want to group the values in the calculated column but it keeps coming up with the 'circular dependency' error. I have looked at a few guide but can't figure it out.
Is it because I can't use calculated column with multiple calculated measures?

Thanks

Jennifer

FreemanZ
Community Champion
Community Champion

hi @JLYT 

try to plot a visual with User ID column and a measure like:
Measure = SUM(Sales[Purchase Amount])

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