I'm trying to create a calculated column in powerpivot to count the distinct orders per customer. The table (Sales) contains product information so has multiple rows per order and multiple orders per customer.
I want this to be a calculated column as I will use the results to build a frequency/histogram table.
I have been trying the following formula but it is very slow and it not bringing any results back.
=CALCUALTE(DISTINCTCOUNT(Sales[OrderNumber]),FILTER(Sales,Sales[Email]=EARLIER(Sales[Email])))
Does anyone have another idea how I could structure the formula to be faster? The table contains 13 million records.
Thanks
Mike
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I have 3 different tables with the customer name and there are duplicates as well as unique customers in the 3 tables and I need to get the unique for all 3 to be used as the rows criteria in the pivot table.
I've been finding a way to do so but I cannot seem to figure it out.
The measure I tried is: Customers:=DISTINCT(UNION(VALUES('Test1 - Invoice'[CustomerID]),VALUES('Test2 - Invoice'[CustomerID]),VALUES('Test3 - Invoice'[CustomerID])))
But I get the error below:
Semantic Error: Too many arguments were passed to the VALUES function.
The maximum argument count for the function is 1.
I am quite new to DAX and have no idea how to do it. I believe it is because measures are only for values if i'm not mistaken
I read that to place on other fields of the pivot table, it has to be a calculated column although I do not see how it can be a calculated column as well.
One approach is to create a separate table to store the Customer Name dimension - then create relationships between that Customer dimension table and your 3 fact tables. This would be most effective at the Power Query stage, but can be done using DAX.
An alternative is to merge your 3 fact tables - again, this would be best done with Power Query, but is possible with DAX.
I am Counting on Distinct ID's in a column - this is leading to the sum of the subtotals not equalling the grand total as follows:
What I want to do is rank the Payment Dates in cronological order and select ONLY the highest date to display. In the example above the Grand Total won't change, but the Townville row will not show a Distinct Student Count.
This is a very specific requirement and I'm assuming there's an easy way to do it in DAX - I've tried playing around with both RANKX and MAX but am no closer to solving this.
One last thing - the Rank must be contextual to the Time Filter selected by the user (so if they select 2015 it'd give the second record Rank 1 and the top record wouldn't show. If they select May 2015 it'd give the top record Rank 1 and the second record wouldn't show)
I think this is what you are looking for - I added a calculated column to the PowerPivot model that provides a rank based on the Last Payment Date and the Name of the Student. It will rank the earliest payment for any student as a 1.
The code for the column is as follows:
=RANKX(FILTER(Table1, [Student Name] = EARLIER([Student Name])), [Last Payment Date])
... assuming your table is named "Table1"!
The FILTER is the key that limits the ranking to dates belonging to students with that name only.
Update for Multiple tables
To set up relationships between the tables, go to the "Diagram View" of the model, available in the Home tab of the Power Pivot window.
You can drag fields from one table to the other to create relationships. This will only work if at least one of the fields is unique - it's a good idea to think of the model as a dimensional model, with a tables that acts like a fact and other tables around it that act like dimensions.
From the comment, I would try to get the Payments to act like the fact, and have it link to the Community and Student tables. in this case, you could then have the following code:
=RANKX(FILTER(Table1, Related('Students'[Student Name]) = EARLIER('Students'[Student Name])), [Last Payment Date])
This calculated column would be on your Payments Fact table, and it uses a lookup to a related field.
Note that in this specific case, it would be easier to just run the filter over your Student ID field that is used to lookup the Student name.
I have a Pivot Table structure as follows:
ROWS:
+-State
+---Customer
+-----Brand
Columns:
+-Cost
I would like to have another column that contains the number of Customers in each state. The issue being that my data contains every order that the customers had placed, so when I try to get the count of Customers it is returning every instance of said customer in the column. Another issue is that my data is 40,000 rows, so I want to try and avoid having to edit the raw data.
I can easily do this with brute force, but I was wondering if there is anyway to do this with standard pivot tables and no add-ons. The pivot table already does a nice job of consolidating the unique values for customers, now I just need a count of those unique values.
I am pretty new with POWERPIVOT tables. I have searched for a bit of time now to resolve my problem but I have been unsuccessful so far. As you can see below, I have created a POWERPIVOT table in Excel 2013 that is composed of two FACT tables, which are based on: 1) a sheet where the clients can insert vote 1 budget entries; and, 2) another sheet where the clients can insert vote 5 budget entries. Also, a few DIMENSION tables have been added to the combination in order to link the Branch names and the expenditure type. Please note that this is only a simple example of what I am trying to produce.
However, my main problem is that I can't add a sub-total that would sum Salary, Operating and Revenues for Vote 1 and Vote 5 separately. What I would like to show is the following:
Please note that I have tried calculated columns and calculated fields at the best of my knowledge but the results are always showing another set of columns for Salary, Operating and Revenues but what I need is just one column that sum the three components so it displays Salary, Operating, Revenues and Sub-Total. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem that I am facing since a long time?
Thanks to gurus.
I would suggest that you start by putting both budgets in the one table and an extra column to designate Vote id., Otherwise I fearyou will need to add a calculated column concatenating the Branch and Expenditure Type in each table, then doing a LOOKUPVALUE from Vote1 on the concatenated column to Vote5 and pull back the value.
I have a table in my PowerPivot data model called Orders which stores all our order records, each row is a unique order record and their are no duplicates.
I have a second table in my data model called Transactions - this table does not have any unique columns however it does have a column called 'OrderID' which is related to the orders stored in the 'Orders' table. A single OrderID may have multiple transactions against it.
I want to add a calculated column to the Orders table which sums the value of all the transactions in 'Transactions' which have a 'OrderID' equal to the 'OrderID' in 'Orders'
Before I was using PowerPivot this was simple, I used a SUMIFS function, this however is not available in PowerPivot, and building a relationship between the two tables does not work because their are multiple transactions for each Order.
Can anyone recommend I can achieve the same SUMIFS result in PowerPivot using a DAX syntax?
Thanks.
I'm updating this to say that I was being a complete muppet. The reason that my relationships weren't working was because my column headers had somehow been duplicated and was appearing a record elsewhere in the table.
As soon as I removed this and created a relationship between the tables as above and the PivotTables worked absolutely fine.
Apologies for wasting anyones time.