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akhoury
Helper I
6 years agoSUMMARIZE function and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR returning BLANK
Dear PBI community, Im having an issue with the Summarize function, especially when applying SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR. The model I have is: -oos_sales Table which has sales transactions by product...
- 6 years ago
HI, I see what you are trying to achieve. I would recommend to use addcolumns along with summarize, for additional columns, i.e., sales & previous year sales.
So the syntax should be Addcolumns ( Summarize ( Sales , Sales [Item] ), "Current Year Sales" , [Current Year Sales Measure] , "Prev Year Sales" , [Prev Year Sales Measure] )
sandeepsingh
6 years agoFrequent Visitor
HI, I see what you are trying to achieve. I would recommend to use addcolumns along with summarize, for additional columns, i.e., sales & previous year sales.
So the syntax should be Addcolumns ( Summarize ( Sales , Sales [Item] ), "Current Year Sales" , [Current Year Sales Measure] , "Prev Year Sales" , [Prev Year Sales Measure] )