Need help with Occurrence of Distinct Count

[Sashwato]

Hello all,

I am trying to do a distinct count of people based on date ending period. So, if a person in Region X under Project A is counted once for a date period, then he/she need not be counted again for any other region and project as well. This is characterized by Date field available. Below screenshot is from the PowerQuery setup:

As you can see from above, I merged the Date and the username to generate a unique Index ID. I plotted a matrix chart to check and below is something I am getting:

If you take a look, on 1/31/2021 - Danny is distinct counted multiple times in projects: ABC, ZKY and GHI. We want Danny to be counted only once for that date period 1/31/2021. Currently I am doing Distinct count of the INDEX column. Please suggest any solution for the same.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sashwato ,

You can add an index column like

The Merged column is created by dax

Merged = [Date]&"-"&[Username]

Then I create the following rank column

Rank = RANKX(FILTER('Table',[Merged]=EARLIER('Table'[Merged])),[Index],,ASC,Dense)

Finally create a measure

Measure = IF(MAX('Table'[Rank])=1,1)

You can click Show items with no data to display empty values.

Check more details from the attachment

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[amitchandak]

@Sashwato , In the project view it will be counted or shown multiple times. But as you can see on grand total it counted once. That is correct.

[Sashwato]

Yes @amitchandak true. I agree, however our management would like to see the count against the name being shown once once rather than 3 times in other projects since they would like to track it on individual basis. 

Is there a measure or something that helps with it?

Regards!

[amitchandak]

@Sashwato , Try a measure like

measure =
var _1 = calculate(min(Table[project]), filter(allselected(Table) ,Table[project] = min(Table[project] ))
return
if( not(isblank(distinctCOUNT(Table[Index]))) && max(Table[project]) =_1 , distinctCOUNT(Table[Index]), blank())

[Sashwato]

Thank you @amitchandak 

I tried using the measure to my context as below:

Updated measure =

var _1 = calculate(min(Sheet1[Client]), filter(allselected(Sheet1) ,Sheet1[Client] = min(Sheet1[Client] )))

return

if( not(isblank(DISTINCTCOUNT(Sheet1[Index]))) && max(Sheet1[Client]) =_1 , DISTINCTCOUNT(Sheet1[Index]), blank())

I am seeing the below results still the same as it shows 1 on ABC, ZKY and GHI for Danny on 1/31/2021: