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ianboothman
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Distinctcount

Good Evening 

 

I have a table relating to sales and I would like to find the voulme of unqiue sales orders.

 

My current DAX 

unique order number =DISTINCTCOUNT(Statles2[Sales Ord])
is giving a flase number. I do have a location filter panel on the page. But even with no loaction selected the unique values is still incorrect. 

ianboothman_0-1737564010208.png

Can someone please help. 

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Greg_Deckler
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@ianboothman Can you elaborate on why you feel the number you are getting is incorrect? That should give you a distinct count of Sales Ord. You could try replacing that with this code:

Measure = COUNTROWS( DISTINCT( SELECTCOLUMNS( 'Table', "__SalesOrd", [Sales Ord] ) ) )

But, again, both DISTINCTCOUNT and that measure should return the same number. 



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Bibiano_Geraldo
Super User
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Hi @ianboothman ,

If i undertood well, you want to count only unique Sales ord (that appears only one time, with no duplicates), this can be reached by this DAX:

Unique Sales Orders = 
COUNTROWS(
    FILTER(
        SUMMARIZE(
            'Statles2', 
            'Statles2'[Sales Ord], 
            "Count", COUNTROWS('Statles2')
        ), 
        [Count] = 1
    )
)

 

Your result will look like this, because there's only one sales order that appears once:

Bibiano_Geraldo_0-1737568602976.png

 

 

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

@ianboothman Can you elaborate on why you feel the number you are getting is incorrect? That should give you a distinct count of Sales Ord. You could try replacing that with this code:

Measure = COUNTROWS( DISTINCT( SELECTCOLUMNS( 'Table', "__SalesOrd", [Sales Ord] ) ) )

But, again, both DISTINCTCOUNT and that measure should return the same number. 



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