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Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

mgcchkn — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:21:57 GMT

This has me wanting to throw my laptop out the window and bang my head against a wall.

See image for details, but I'm trying to return the last non blank "production" amount to calculate "missed production" for days where there were down hours. (so first example is ends up being E4/24*D5 and E4/24*D6, and then E10/24*D11)

Using Excel just for illustration purposes.

Thank you,

Eric

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

ThxAlot — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:40:11 GMT

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

mgcchkn — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:30:10 GMT

Your solution works as described. I messed up my example dataset though.

My dataset does contain a number in the Production column (between 0-100) even when there is Down Hours. So I'd need it to find the last day that didn't have Down Hours instead of the lastnonblank. I thought I had it when I removed the <= and just made it a < but it got the previous number because it wasn't a blank.

Sorry for messing that up.

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:16:02 GMT

Hi mgcchkn

First of all, thanks ThxAlot for your contribution to the forum.

Maybe you can try this:
Create a calculate column in the table:

Missed production = VAR _previousDate = IF ( 'Table'[Down Date] <> BLANK (), CALCULATE ( MAX ( 'Table'[Date] ), FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Date] < EARLIER ( 'Table'[Date] ) && 'Table'[Down Date] = BLANK () ) ) ) VAR _previousProduction = CALCULATE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Production] ), FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Date] = _previousDate ) ) RETURN ( _previousProduction / 24 ) * 'Table'[Down Hours]

The result is as follow:

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Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

ThxAlot — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:58:18 GMT

Hm... I really doubt it would work by just removing "=" from "<="; you can observe it on 2024/1/18 (or any Down in a row).

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

ThxAlot — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:01:08 GMT

Usually, TOPN() is more concise way to handle such scenarios.

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

mgcchkn — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:11:45 GMT

Thank you, ThxAlot ! This worked perfectly!

Re: Get last non blank value in column to calculate missed production by date

mgcchkn — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:13:08 GMT

Thank you for the response! For some reason when I do this, I don't get any results. I'll have to play with it some more to see where I'm going wrong. ThxAlot 's 2nd solution did work however.