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Hi All,
I am having an issue here and would appreciate your help. I am very new to Power BI. I have had my data unpivoted. Now what i want to do is, If i select a certain coloumn "Request Type" = Proposal and Also select another coloumn "Is Proposal" = Yes, iwant the countDisticnt of project i.e. DISTINCT COUNT( Name). But when i write this it give me the distint count of projects accross all Request Types which is 259 but i want it to be 69.(Verified it on Excel)
I hope i have explained the question in a rightway!
Can anyone help?
Thank you.
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Hi Abhishek1,
Based on your description, you want to distinct count a column grouped by other columns, right?
You can use "Group By" in Query Editor, click Transform->Group By, refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-common-query-tasks#group-rows.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
Hi Abhishek1,
Based on your description, you want to distinct count a column grouped by other columns, right?
You can use "Group By" in Query Editor, click Transform->Group By, refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-common-query-tasks#group-rows.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
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