topic Calculated Table for progressive costs in DAX Commands and Tips

Calculated Table for progressive costs

Flabenu — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:52:28 GMT

I have three tables, PROJECTS, TIME and ACTUAL. In PROJECTS I have the list of projects (PROJECTID, DESCRIPTION), in TIME I have the list of all the dates (DATE, YEAR, MONTH, YEAR-MONTH), in ACTUAL there are the costs recorded for each project and for each date (PROJECTID , DATE, YEAR, MONTH, YEAR-MONTH, ARTICLE, QUANTITY, AMOUNT). The ACTUAL table is logically linked with a 1:N relationship to the PROJECTS table (PROJECTS.PROJECTID 1:N ACTUAL.PROJECTID). The ACTUAL table is also logically linked to the TIME table (TIME.DATE 1:N ACTUAL.DATE). The PROJECTS and TIME tables are not logically linked. How could the DAX code be to build a calculated table that has as fields: PROJECTID, YEAR-MONTH and COSTITOT (where COSTITOT is for PROJECT/YEAR-MONTH the cumulative cost, i.e. the progressive sum of all the ACTUAL.AMOUNT from the beginning of dates up to YEAR-MONTH ) ?

Re: Calculated Table for progressive costs

gaurav-lakhotia — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:54:09 GMT

Hi Flabenu ,

Make the relationship between TIME & ACTUAL bi-directional & then try to create the table. If it doesn't work, please share the sample file.

Re: Calculated Table for progressive costs

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:17:46 GMT

Hi Flabenu ,

According to your statement, I think [PROJECTID] and [YEAR-MONTH] you need are both in 'ACTUAL' table.

You can just create the calculated table based on 'ACTUAL' table.

I am still confused about the calculation logic about [COSTITOT] which is based on PROJECT/YEAR-MONTH.

Do you want to get a table which will show progressive costs? I think it should be comulative amount/ comulative quantity.

I think you can try code as below to create a calculated table.

Calculated Table = SUMMARIZE ( 'ACTUAL', 'ACTUAL'[PROJECTID], 'ACTUAL'[YEAR-MONTH], "Progressive Costs", VAR _Quantity = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'ACTUAL'[QUANTITY] ), FILTER ( 'ACTUAL', 'ACTUAL'[PROJECTID] = EARLIER ( [PROJECTID] ) && 'ACTUAL'[YEAR-MONTH] <= EARLIER ( [YEAR-MONTH] ) ) ) VAR _AMOUNT = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'ACTUAL'[AMOUNT] ), FILTER ( 'ACTUAL', 'ACTUAL'[PROJECTID] = EARLIER ( [PROJECTID] ) && 'ACTUAL'[YEAR-MONTH] <= EARLIER ( [YEAR-MONTH] ) ) ) RETURN DIVIDE ( _AMOUNT, _Quantity ) )

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Rico Zhou

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