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domden
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Total SUM in Matrix wrong

Hello there! I hope you guys can help me.

I have a problem with the total sum under my matrix in pbi.

 

I got 2 different ordernumbers. Order 1 has 4 order items; Order 2 has 1 item.

In Order 1, I get 23 subitems. thats why my warehouse software is duplicating the order items. (see below)

total_sum_Pbi_2.png

 

I want to know how many Items are in each order. Im using distinct count.

The count is correkt, but the total is wrong. (see below)

 

total_sum_Pbi.png

 

I have searched a lot now, but didnt find something useful.

Pls help 🙂

thx.

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BITomS
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Hi @domden,

 

To achieve this, you can use one measure that uses a variable to summarize the data. Help on variables here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/best-practices/dax-variables

 

Measure = VAR _Tbl = SUMMARIZE('TableName',[OrderNumber],"Count",DISTINCTCOUNT([OrderItem]))

RETURN

sumx(_Tbl,[Count])

 

The variable is doing the distinct count per category in a table and then the sumx is referencing the variable table to sum the distinct counts together. Hope this helps!

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BITomS
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Hi @domden,

 

To achieve this, you can use one measure that uses a variable to summarize the data. Help on variables here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/best-practices/dax-variables

 

Measure = VAR _Tbl = SUMMARIZE('TableName',[OrderNumber],"Count",DISTINCTCOUNT([OrderItem]))

RETURN

sumx(_Tbl,[Count])

 

The variable is doing the distinct count per category in a table and then the sumx is referencing the variable table to sum the distinct counts together. Hope this helps!

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