How to count distinct Months in a column

[morther]

I have a slicer in PowerBI which I can select multiple months.

I added a Card in PowerBI with the "Month" selected and choose (Count Distinct). When I select multiple months in the slicer, PowerBI returns the exact count of months that I selected. If I choose August, September, October, the count is "3" just as expected.

I need to create a Column that multiplies "130 * DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month]"

test = CALCULATE(130 * (
     DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])))

If 2 months are selected by the slicer then the total should be 260.

The code above is not calculating properly.  The numbers are off a little bit.  

I am not sure if I should be using DISTINCTCOUNT

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mike

[Ashish_Mathur · Accepted solution]

Hi,

What result do you get with this?

=130*DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])

[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

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@morther wrote:

I have a slicer in PowerBI which I can select multiple months.

I added a Card in PowerBI with the "Month" selected and choose (Count Distinct). When I select multiple months in the slicer, PowerBI returns the exact count of months that I selected. If I choose August, September, October, the count is "3" just as expected.

I need to create a Column that multiplies "130 * DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month]"

test = CALCULATE(130 * (
     DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])))

If 2 months are selected by the slicer then the total should be 260.

The code above is not calculating properly.  The numbers are off a little bit.  

I am not sure if I should be using DISTINCTCOUNT

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mike

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@morther

The DAX measure shall work If it is a measure. If you actually created a "Column" in your case, try to create a measure instead. Otherwise, for further suggestion, please post more sample data of your case. Or even better you can upload the pbix file to Onedrive/Google drive and share the link.

[morther]

Oh my goodness, I thought I had tried that yesterday but could not get it to accept the query as a measure.

This worked as a measure.  Thank you so much.

Measure = 130*DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi @morther,

I do not know whom you are replying to but that is exactly what my suggestion was.

[Ashish_Mathur · Accepted solution]

Hi,

What result do you get with this?

=130*DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])

[morther]

Oh my goodness, that was my bad. This was exactly the answer.

Measure = 130*DISTINCTCOUNT(ImportCubicPM[Month])

I was doing this as a column, but when I changed it to a measure it worked as expected.

I am sorry for not giving credit where credit was due.

Mike