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Poupouh
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Distinctcount excluding negative number through time

Hello!

I am quite new to Power Bi and I am currenlty experiencing trouble with the DISTINCTCOUNT  function. 

What I am trying to do is quite easy, counting the distinct number of customer excluding the negative and nul numbers. 

My formula is the follwing: 

 

calculate( distinctcount(Database[Parent name]),filter('Database','Database'[transaction sales]>=1), filter('calendar','Calendar'[Year Type]="This Year"))
 
My expected final visual must be as followed
Picture1.png
However for some reason Power Bi count the customers as long as they have a positive amount once. Which results in a deviation in the final number of customers per month. 
Picture2.png
I don't know how to chnage my formula to make Power Bi iterate on a monthly basis not on the total. 
 
If any body could be of assistance on this point this would be really really helpful. 
Thank you in advance 😣
 
 
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Poupouh
Frequent Visitor

Thank you for the reference. I managed getting the good number via a If and Summarize function. 

Again, thank you for your help!

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Poupouh
Frequent Visitor

Thank you for the reference. I managed getting the good number via a If and Summarize function. 

Again, thank you for your help!

amitchandak
Super User
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@Poupouh , distinctcount will be calculated again at grand total so it will not be a sum of rows

 

refer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufHOOLdi_jk

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