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sputnik76
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Struggling with filters and calculate

I have a table of users that I want to count and then filter out the ones that are no longer active.  I have a table (users) that contains a column of names (full name) and a column called 'is_active' with either 1 or 0 to indicate if they are/are not active users.  I'm trying to filter the measure to give me what I want but it's simply not working and other than some vague error message I'm a bit in the dark.

 

Error message on the visual is " Error Message: MdxScript(Model) (24, 70) Calculation error in measure 'users'[Num users]: DAX comparison operations do not support comparing values of type Integer with values of type Text. Consider using the VALUE or FORMAT function to convert one of the values."

 

I'm doing this;

 

Num users = CALCULATE(COUNT(users[full name]),users[is_active]="1")
 
Can anyone shed any light on what I am doing wrong here?
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Mariusz
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @sputnik76 ,

Try removing "" as below

 

Num users = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNT(users[full name]),
    users[is_active] = 1 
)

Hope this helps

Mariusz

 

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Baskar
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Num users = CALCULATE(COUNT(users[full name]),filter(users,users[is_active]=1))

 

Try this 

Mariusz
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @sputnik76 ,

Try removing "" as below

 

Num users = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNT(users[full name]),
    users[is_active] = 1 
)

Hope this helps

Mariusz

 

Works, thank you!

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