Distinct count over multiple tables

[Martin-Prague]

Hello Experts,

I have a situation where I need to calculate UNIQUE NUMBER OF ENGAGED USERS.

In my data model people can:

• sumbit an idea
• like an idea
• comment an idea

All of these activities are in diffrenet tables as follwoing image:

What I need is to calculate that number of unique numbers who were engaged. It means they have sumbited an idea / commented / liked.

If I filter on 1 idea I want to see if the somebody who sumbited and idea and at the same time liked and commented was calculated only once.

Please see following example for selection on IDEA = 1

Number of engaged users should be only 3.  You can see eventhougt user A has been interacted 3 times he counts only 1 time.

I was thinking to somehow virually union all 3 tables together and then run DISTINCTCOUNT. But still it has to follow the filter context.

Thanks for your help

Cheers!

Martin-Prague

[Anonymous]

HI @Martin-Prague ,

Unfortunate, current dax formula not support auto calculate related table fields.
I'd like to suggest you create a bridge table to link and merge these tables fields and use id to manually summary and calculate on these tables.

Optimizing Many-to-Many Calculations in DAX with SUMMARIZE and Cross Table Filtering

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Martin-Prague]

Thanks all, at the end I build a view in SQL that combines my data into one table and then I am able to do this calculation simply in Power BI.

[Martin-Prague]

Any ideas?