I'm trying to divide two columns by using DAX. I've always struggled with this functionality in the past and thought I got this but I can't get my head around why it wouldn't work.
The formula doing a measure: (I tried count function also)
Output:
It should calculate 3521/41770 = 0.084
@Anonymous so as per your screen shot, you need to change data type to decimal number and decimal point to 2 or 3, didn't seems like you did that?
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@Anonymous just to clarify, you are adding a measure, correct?
Based on screen shot, seems like you are doing count of disputes and transactions, although you said, you tried count, but not worked, what did you get? Same zero?
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yeah @parry2k , it is a measure.
When I do count: Disputes divided by Transactions = DIVIDE(count('Disputes'[Disputes]), count('Disputes'[Transactions])) - nothing changes.
The two columns I'm using in the formula are Transaction and Disputes IDs that I am counting in that table already and then trying to use DAX to get the ratio.
@Anonymous did you checked the data type
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@Anonymous so as per your screen shot, you need to change data type to decimal number and decimal point to 2 or 3, didn't seems like you did that?
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@Anonymous seems to be something I'm missing here, it is simplest thing to do. can you share pbix or sample data.
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I did both @parry2k , a calculated column and measure using same formulas:
Column formula: Column = DIVIDE(count(Disputes[Disputes]),count(Disputes[Transactions]))
Measure formula: Measure = DIVIDE(count(Disputes[Disputes]),count(Disputes[Transactions]))
Output:
@Anonymous also can you check the data type of this new measure, make sure it is not a whole number but decimal number with 2 or 3 decimal position, based on screen shot, it looks like it is whole number and in that case you will see 0 and no decimal point, and your calculation is returning decimal point.
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