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mmace1
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Summing a filtered version of a table, using only the unique values (Virtual Tables Question?)

The situation is easy to solve via Power Query, but I'd love to know how to do this in DAX. 

 

Say I have the below table:

 

Capture.JPG

 

I want to sum the Spend column: SUM(Spend)

Only when RuleviolationID = 7:  CALCULATE(SUM(SPEND), RuleViolationID = 7)

 

So that's all very simple. 


But see how the PaymentIDs have duplicates?  I only want to sum the Spend 1x per each instance of a PaymentID. 

 

I was thinking of using CALCLUATETABLE to pull a version of the table where RuleViolationID = 7, And then using VALUES to only grab unique values of the PaymentID, but - obviously that doesn't work.  It makes me think virtual tables would be the way to go, though. 

 

It's easy to just pull a custom version of the table in Power Query, but is there a good way to work this in DAX? 

 

 

 

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @mmace1 

 

You may try to create a table with SUMMARIZE Function. For example:

 

Table =
SUMMARIZE (
    FILTER ( Table1, Table1[RuleViolationID] = 7 ),
    Table1[PaymentID],
    "Spend", SUM ( Table1[Spend] )
)

Regards,

Cherie

 

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thanks - wouldn't summarize by the paymentID, result in duplicate payment IDs being counted more than 1x though? 

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