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I am stuck with an issue I cant seem to figure out how to do in DAX. Since users will select filters in PowerBI Services, I can't do this in Power Query/M as some materials would be filtered out and would require a change to the summary result table. Any assistance would be appreciated.
I have a set of data like below (but with many more rules & materials)
Material Rule-1 Rule-2 Rule-3
A Pass Fail N/A
B Fail Pass Pass
C N/A Fail Pass
And I want to create a table like
Status Rule-1 Rule-2 Rule-3
Pass 1 1 2
Fail 1 2 0
N/A 1 0 1
or it could be pivoted (rules down left and Pass, Fail, N/A across top) does not matter.
How would I accomplish this?
To unpivot a table using DAX is quite challenging. You may want to try the following steps in DAX to get your desired result.
1. Creating a new table with two columns, 'Rules' and 'Status'
Sorry for confussion, but I need to create a summary table in DAX, because i am pushing to R which is limited to 150,000 rows and my data set is 3 million records and increasing. So, i cant use a widget (like a matrix) to summarize the data.
Hi @Anonymous,
You can get it with the formula below. But this calculated table is relative stable, which means its values can't change as the filters or slicers change.
Table = ADDCOLUMNS ( DISTINCT ( UNION ( VALUES ( Table1[Rule-1] ), VALUES ( Table1[Rule-2] ), VALUES ( Table1[Rule-3] ) ) ), "Rule-1-num", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Table1[Rule-1] ), FILTER ( 'Table1', 'Table1'[Rule-1] = EARLIER ( 'Table1'[Rule-1] ) ) ), "Rule-2-num", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Table1[Rule-2] ), FILTER ( 'Table1', 'Table1'[Rule-2] = EARLIER ( [Rule-1] ) ) ), "Rule-3-num", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Table1[Rule-3] ), FILTER ( 'Table1', 'Table1'[Rule-3] = EARLIER ( Table1[Rule-1] ) ) ) )
Best Regards,
I was able to get your solution to work, but as you mentioned when a user filters with a slicer the summary table does not update. This update is a key feature for my solution. Is there no way to create a table in dax that is updateable based on user selections?
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