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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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calculated field

 

Need help on calc field per company as buy and sell are 2 diff rows. They need to be net off to get the profit from the transaction done that day... hope somewat clear

 

 

 

  • Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Can you please explain a little bit better what is the expected result?

  • MFelix's avatar
    MFelix
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    If you use a matrix visualization and place the Trans column in the columns you get the expected result:

     

    This depends on how you want to setup everything but then making some measures you can have the results has you need.

     

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  • rsbin's avatar
    rsbin
    Community Champion

    Anonymous,

    If I understand correctly, your first step in PowerQuery is to Pivot your "Trans" column.

    This should create two new fields "Buy" and "Sell".

    Then you can create Measures from these.

    Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.

  • Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Can you please explain a little bit better what is the expected result?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    Hi Anonymous 

    Your description is not very clear. What are your needs ? What kind of effect do you want to achieve ? Can it be reflected in the form of pictures or data, if possible, please provide your pbix file (remove private information) .

     

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    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      let me try again - am trying to get a summary say as pivot in excel of buy and sell trnsctions a day over few days. sheet 'b s indiv' is the base data

      https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApFc

      Thnx in advance

      • MFelix's avatar
        MFelix
        Super User

        Hi Anonymous ,

         

        If you use a matrix visualization and place the Trans column in the columns you get the expected result:

         

        This depends on how you want to setup everything but then making some measures you can have the results has you need.