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JustSayJoe
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Measure Filtering Scenario

I need help getting around an issue I have with a measure getting filtered incorrectly for my purposes. See below scenario.

 

TABLE_A

Includes columns: [Email Address], [Date], [Order ID], [Product]

 

Measure is [Returning Customers] and has the following code...

  COUNTROWS(FILTER(VALUES('TABLE_A'[Email Address], DISTINCTCOUNT('TABLE_A'[Order ID]) > 1 && DISTINCTCOUNT('TABLE_A'[Product]) > 1))

 

This measure works great when I'm filtering by the Date, but when I filter by the Product it does not display the correct values. I get the why of it happening, but I can't figure out how to make this measure still give me the correct number of returning customers when filtered by Product only. Any help here would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

 

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parry2k
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@JustSayJoe have you seen this article?

 

I'm sure it will help to solve.



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parry2k
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@JustSayJoe you are covered, glad it was helpful.



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parry2k
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@JustSayJoe have you seen this article?

 

I'm sure it will help to solve.



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Thank you! That article was what I've been searching for over the past 4 days.

parry2k
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@JustSayJoe share the sample data and the expected output.



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DateOrder IDEmail AddressProduct
8/1/20231email1@gmail.comThing1
8/2/20232email2@gmail.comThing2
8/3/20233email1@gmail.comThing3
8/4/20234email3@gmail.comThing4
8/5/20235email3@gmail.comThing5
8/6/20236email4@gmail.comThing1
8/7/20237email5@gmail.comThing2

 

 

Expected Outcome of the [Returning Customers] Measure...
When I filter my page by Product for "Thing1", the Returning Customers should be 0.

When I filter my page by Product for "Thing2", the Returning Customers should be 0.

When I filter my page by Product for "Thing3", the Returning Customers should be 1 (because email1@gmail.com previously purchased another Product on 8/1/2023).

When I filter my page by Product for "Thing4", the Returning Customers should be 0 (even though email3@gmail.com has purchased two different products, Thing4 was their first purchased product, so they were not a returning customer yet).

When I filter my page by Product for "Thing5", the Returning Customers should be 1 (because email3@gmail.com previously purchased another Product on 8/4/2023).

 

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