Help with multiple counts with two variables

[sjhardy]

Hi all, I hope you can help.  I have a requirement to create two columns.  One column has a candidateID and the other column is clientreqno.  Both columns are set as text.  I want a column that will give me a count of the no of times a candidate id appears next to a requisition, and then another column that will give me the opposite for different reasons.  I have looked through other solutions on the forum but nothing is giving me the right value.  So as an example for CandidateID I would expect 5133447 to return a value of 2 as there are two distinct clientreqno.  and then I want another column that would give me for example clientreqno of 21000044 would have returned 8

I have this, but its giving me 0 as a value.  Can anyone help troubleshoot the dax:

Count =

VAR _clientno = 'Combined Candidate list'[ClientReqNo]

VAR _count =

COUNTROWS(

FILTER(

ALL('Combined Candidate list'),

_clientno='Combined Candidate list'[CandidateID]

)

)

RETURN

IF(

_count > 0,

_count,

0

)

[v-eqin-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @sjhardy ,

Please try:

Distinct No each ID =
CALCULATE (
    DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Combined Candidate list'[ClientReqNo] ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( 'Combined Candidate list', 'Combined Candidate list'[CandidateID] )
)

Distinct ID each No = 
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Combined Candidate list' ),
    ALLEXCEPT ( 'Combined Candidate list', 'Combined Candidate list'[ClientReqNo] )
)

Output:

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Write these 2 calculated column formulas

=calculate(distinctcount(Data[ClientReqNo]),filter(Data,Data[CandidateID]=earlier(Data[CandidateID])))

=calculate(countrows(Data),filter(Data,Data[CandidateID]=earlier(Data[CandidateID])))

Hope this helps.

[lbendlin]

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