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jayjay0306
Helper III
Helper III

How do I sum a variable?

Hi folks,

 

I hope you can help me here:

I have a power BI report, where I need to calculate the share of customers, who are "RED" compared to total number of customers, and it needs to be a measure.

In other words, I have the following setup(example):

pic11.PNG

and I need the following result (when I "collapse" the table):

pic12.PNG

 

I have tried to make the following measure:

 

No of customers, who are red = 
VAR Is_RED=NOT(ISBLANK(VALUES('table'[Is_RED])))
VAR RED_flag=IF(Is_RED,1,BLANK())
RETURN
RED_flag

 

 

Which flags the correct customers. But when I collapse the table, I get this:

 

pic13.PNG

 

How do I sum (or count) the customers on a aggregated lavel?

 

thanks.

 

Br,

JayJay0306

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danextian
Super User
Super User

Hi @jayjay0306 

Try this

=
SUMX ( VALUES ( 'table'[Customer] ), [No of customers, who are red measure] )

 

That aside, I'm wondering why not use a simpler measure that counts the non-blank rows in Is_RED column

= COUNTA( 'table'[Is_RED] )




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jayjay0306
Helper III
Helper III

Thanks Danextian, your first solution works excellent. I forgot to tell, that the 'table'[is_red] is an expression I have made and not a table column. Hence, I can't us COUNTA(). But thanks anyway 🙂

br,

Jayjay0306

danextian
Super User
Super User

Hi @jayjay0306 

Try this

=
SUMX ( VALUES ( 'table'[Customer] ), [No of customers, who are red measure] )

 

That aside, I'm wondering why not use a simpler measure that counts the non-blank rows in Is_RED column

= COUNTA( 'table'[Is_RED] )




Dane Belarmino | Microsoft MVP | Proud to be a Super User!

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"Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand."
Need Power BI consultation, get in touch with me on LinkedIn or hire me on UpWork.
Learn with me on YouTube @DAXJutsu or follow my page on Facebook @DAXJutsuPBI.

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