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Hello,
I thought my question was an easy question, but I don't get what I doing wrong.
I want to use DAX to find the second (or third, ect...) occurrence in a list of unique values.
So we DISTINCT and INDEX I should be ok but it index all the values and not only the unique one.
In a table called 'Tableau1', I try the obtain the second unique value of a column name 'Tableau1' [CT].
Thanks for your help.
Nicolas
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Hi Nicolas,
This DAX should do the trick:
SecondDistinct =
INDEX(2,DISTINCT(DistinctList[List]),ORDERBY(DistinctList[List]))
Hi Nicolas,
This DAX should do the trick:
SecondDistinct =
INDEX(2,DISTINCT(DistinctList[List]),ORDERBY(DistinctList[List]))
Thanks a lot John, That was what I was doing but my data were wrong (not the formula), but your help make me find the mistake.
Thanks again
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@NicolasF26 See if this helps: The Mythical DAX Index - Microsoft Power BI Community
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