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Mackie
Helper I
Helper IHow to Cumulative Sum?
How can I calculate column "C" from "A" & "B" columns? Thank you.
| a | b | c |
| 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 3 | 10 | 17 |
| 6 | 2 | 19 |
| 9 | 4 | 23 |
| 12 | 9 | 32 |
| 15 | 18 | 50 |
Well, you cannot unless you have an Index column or the value of A for each row of increases in a sorted fashion. If the latter is indeed the case then you could do this:
c = SUMX(FILTER('Table',[a] <= EARLIER([a])),[b])
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- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Well, you cannot unless you have an Index column or the value of A for each row of increases in a sorted fashion. If the latter is indeed the case then you could do this:
c = SUMX(FILTER('Table',[a] <= EARLIER([a])),[b])
MackieThank you, Greg_Deckler . Your formulate works for me.
If you know any page which explains "EARLIER" function, please let me know.
- Greg_DecklerSure, think of EARLIER as the "current" value for a column in a row. The technical explanation is that it refers to an "earlier" evaluation context. So, in the formula above, the evaluation context that is previous to the evaluation context created by the FILTER statement. You could do the same thing with
c =
VAR __a = [a]
RETURN
SUMX(FILTER('Table',[a] <= __a),[b])
But, it's more typing and I do enough of that so EARLIER is a nice shorthand. Plus, in more complex DAX calculations it avoids nested VAR RETURN statements. Pick your poison I guess.