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Marcus-G
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3 years ago
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(Looking For Help) Merging Qualifiable Data for Counts in Report View

I am writing this as I am fairily new to Power BI and was tasked with creating some reporting with my companies data and I was wondering if I could have someone give me some quick pointers on this is...
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  • v-yalanwu-msft's avatar
    v-yalanwu-msft
    3 years ago

    Hi, Marcus-G ;

    You could create a measure by dax.

    totalcount = 
CALCULATE(COUNT('Table'[Cookie 1]),'Table'[Cookie 1]="Choco")+
CALCULATE(COUNT('Table'[Cookie 2]),'Table'[Cookie 2]="Choco")+
CALCULATE(COUNT('Table'[Cookie 3]),'Table'[Cookie 3]="Choco")

    The final show:


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HotChilli
Community Champion
3 years ago

You have 2 options to keep things simple:

write a measure to count the values in each 'cookie' column i.e. you combine the resuts for each column

or

UnPivot the 'Cookie' columns in Power Query and you'll have one column to write a measure or drag on to a visual to use default aggregations