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jonclay
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Problems with COUNTA, COUNTX etc

Hi there everyone,

I seem to have a real blindspot for Power BI counting and I wonder if you could please help me?

My dataset contains a number of people who have made donations. Some of them have ages and some don't. I'm trying to count the number of people with an age. So, in the example below, we have 14 lines of data, 4 contacts, but only two of them have an age, so the answer woud be 2:

 

jonclay_0-1641569174263.png


My table is called 'contact' so I've tried the following Measure:

With Age = COUNTAX(FILTER('contact',DISTINCTCOUNT(contact[id])),contact[Age?])

Age? (the field referred to in the above Measure) is a calculated column that equals "Yes" if there is an age and null if there isn't an age.

When I run this Measure I get a total of 14, so the same total that I'd get if I just did =COUNTA(contact[Age?]).

Help please!!
Many thanks,
Jon



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parry2k
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@jonclay try this

 


Count With Age = CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT(contact[id]), NOT ISBLANK ( contact[Age?] ) )

 

 

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smpa01
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@jonclay  use this

 

Measure = calculate(DISTINCTCOUNT(t1[name]),t1[age]<>BLANK())

 

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jonclay
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@smpa01 and @parry2k Thank you SO much, both of those solutions worked.

smpa01
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@jonclay  use this

 

Measure = calculate(DISTINCTCOUNT(t1[name]),t1[age]<>BLANK())

 

smpa01_0-1641569808729.png

 

 

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parry2k
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@jonclay try this

 


Count With Age = CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT(contact[id]), NOT ISBLANK ( contact[Age?] ) )

 

 

Follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.gif to our YouTube channel

 

Learn about conditional formatting at Microsoft Reactor

My latest blog post The Power of Using Calculation Groups with Inactive Relationships (Part 1) (perytus.com) I would  Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

 

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