count numeric column cells and exclude certain value

[dlgardo]

I would like to count the number of cells in a numeric column but exclude if the value is 0.  Seems like this should be fairly easy, but since I am new to PowerBI, I would appreciate any assistance!  Thank you!

[alanhodgson · Accepted solution]

Hey @dlgardo,

Sean's answer works for me. This also seems to work:

Count Column = COUNTX(FILTER('Table', 'Table'['Column'] <> 0),[Column])

@Sean can you confirm?

Thanks,

Alan

[alanhodgson]

Hey @dlgardo,

Create a new column like the one below:

Count Column = SUMX([Dataset], IF([Column1]<>0, 1, 0))

This will count all the fields that are not equal to 0.

Hope this helps,

Alan

[Sean]

Here's an alternative

Column Count Measure = CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS('Table'), 'Table'[Column] <> 0 )

The above is basically internally treated like this...

Column Count Measure = CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS('Table'), FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[Column] <> 0 ) )

Also if for some reason you neeed to exclude the zeros but include the blanks just add the countblank like this

Column Count Measure = CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS('Table'), 'Table'[Column] <> 0 ) + COUNTBLANK ( 'Table'[Column] )

[alanhodgson · Accepted solution]

Hey @dlgardo,

Sean's answer works for me. This also seems to work:

Count Column = COUNTX(FILTER('Table', 'Table'['Column'] <> 0),[Column])

@Sean can you confirm?

Thanks,

Alan

[Sean · Accepted solution]

Yep that's another way of doing the same thing...

the only thing I'll change is add the table name as per Rob Collie's post here

EDIT: Sorry the post was actually by @MattAllington on Rob's site

• Column reference:  Table[Column Name]
• Measure Reference:  [measure name]

But that's just a suggestion it should work regardless

Count Column = COUNTX ( FILTER ('Table', 'Table'[Column] <> 0) , 'Table'[Column] )

[dlgardo]

Thank you very much for the reply!  Seems like that is counting every cell in the table.  I just need a count of rows based on a column if the value is not 0.  I have a total of about 86000 rows, and the number of rows that do not have a 0 value in Column F should come down to approx. 24K.