topic Re: Running total / cumulative Sales in DAX Commands and Tips

Running total / cumulative Sales

Deva002 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 06:05:55 GMT

We have a requirement to create some Running totals in Power BI, we tried several measures but the results were not as expected.

how can we achieve this in Power BI?

Solution to this problem can be used in multiple scenarios like cumulative sales, Amount Invoiced so far, stock levels etc.

Sample Dataset:

Sales	cumulative Sales
10	10
20	30
30	60
40	100

Happy New Year!!

-Deva

Re: Running total / cumulative Sales

tringuyenminh92 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 07:00:44 GMT

Hi Deva002,

There are some similar questions about cummulative with solution like:

With same approach: Create Dates table -> Create measure with filter All(Dates), Dates[Date] <= Max(Dates[Date])

Please let me know if you need more sample for your situation.

Re: Running total / cumulative Sales

Deva002 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:55:35 GMT

Dear tringuyenminh92,

Can we have a measure like this without a date dimension?

-Deva

Re: Running total / cumulative Sales

tringuyenminh92 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:40:15 GMT

Hi Deva002,

Sorry for late response cause i just arrived hometown for new year ^_^

One of purposes when using external Dates table to allow you filter another fields in same fact table and the cummulative will be reflected. So if your fact table has only 2 columns Date and Value, i think you could use ALL method and Date column of that.

Cummulative. = CALCULATE(SUM(TableB[Value]),filter(ALL(TableB), TableB[Date]<=MAX(Dates[Date]) ))

In case you have additional fields and want to filter on that column, you need to handle with ALLEXCEPT, something like this:

Cummulative = CALCULATE(SUM(TableB[Value]),filter(ALLEXCEPT(TableB,TableB[AdditionalField/Dim]), TableB[Date]<=MAX(Dates[Date]) ))

So my recommendation is using Time Pattern as topic (external dates table):smileyvery-happy:

If this works for you please accept it as solution and also like to give KUDOS.

Best regards
Tri Nguyen

Re: Running total / cumulative Sales

Baskar — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 07:11:42 GMT

Cool Dude,

We can do ,

1. Have to add index on your Table using Power Query

2. Have to create Calculated Column

Let me know if it is not helping u