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The Count Distinct function (COUNT_DISTINCT) is used to count the number of unique values returned by a certain query. It does not add the values together to achieve that use the Sum function. If the total number of values is needed regardless of duplicates then the Count function should be used.
The Count Distinct function has one parameters:
Allowed Inputs: field values
The parameter of the Count Distinct function are the field values to be counted. The input is a query built using the Query Builder to find field values on one or many record(s) in a table.
The output of the Count Distinct function is a number representing a count of all the unique values found.
If an Invoice record has 4 related Line Item records, and those records have values of -6, 8, 8, and 24 in the Quantity field, COUNT(${Line Item ~> Quantity}) would result in 3.