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Jamez_P
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2 years ago
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Extrapolate/Fill or something?

Hi thanks in advance for any help.


Background:
I am building a project management dashboard with the aim of this piece to accurately show the booked costs and planned costs of current projects. There are two tables a booking table and a planning table and both of these tables work in a similar way with a month, project number, number of hours and a worker ID.

 

My issue:
The cost table has Worker ID, valid from and cost. The valid from is a period date in the format YYYY0MM - all of the tables use this, I have steps to convert it to a normal date everywhere.
I think I can do a merge to find the costs in the bookings and planning tables but I am not sure how to dynamically expand the costs table out and fill for each month/period to create something that can be merged.
Nice to have: as the projects are opened and the current projects change, the table as a minimum dynamically grows forwards in time based on the project planned furthest into the future.


Example of the cost table

EmployeeNumberValidFromHourlyrate
1001202300990
1001202200780
1001202001070
1002202300890
1002202200775

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi Jamez_P 

    You can refer to the following ways

    1.Use merge queries in power query, find the same column among the tables, e.g the [employeeid] column in cost table and [employeeid] column in booking table, then expand it. you can refer to the following link.

    Merge queries overview - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

    2.If you have the relationship among tables, you can use calculate() function and related() function to find the related value from another table.

    RELATED function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

    If the following above cannot meet your requirement, can you provide some sample data of the tables and the output picture you want?

     

    Best Regards!

    Yolo Zhu

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

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi Jamez_P 

    You can refer to the following ways

    1.Use merge queries in power query, find the same column among the tables, e.g the [employeeid] column in cost table and [employeeid] column in booking table, then expand it. you can refer to the following link.

    Merge queries overview - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

    2.If you have the relationship among tables, you can use calculate() function and related() function to find the related value from another table.

    RELATED function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

    If the following above cannot meet your requirement, can you provide some sample data of the tables and the output picture you want?

     

    Best Regards!

    Yolo Zhu

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