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New column based on fixed amount

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:12:37 GMT

I've got two tables named Procurement and Stock.

Procurement contains columns "Confirmed delivery date" and "Procurement Amount".

Stock contains columns "Available stock", which is a current fixed amount. The tables are related based on "SKU" which is a part of both tables.

So right now i've got a matrix table looking like this:

Product Procurement Amount Available Stock

SKU1 718 -377

16. april 2021 268 -377

14. may 2021 151 -377

24. june 2021 149 -377

4. july 2021 150 -377

I want to create a column stating the available stock after the procurement amount and thereby being capable of possibly creating a date table where "New available stock" > 0 in order to show the next date that entails available stock. So essentially something like:

Product Procurement Amount Available Stock New Available Stock

SKU1 718 -377

16. april 2021 268 -377 -109

14. may 2021 151 -377 42(-109+151)

24. june 2021 149 -377 191(42+149)

4. july 2021 150 -377 341(191+150)

And afterwards create a table visual stating next available stock date = 14. may 2021.

Hope you can help.

Re: New column based on fixed amount

selimovd — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:41:08 GMT

Hey Anonymous ,

when you have a column with the procurement amount and no other column, then it's hard to calculate the new amount. Do you have another column that shows the consumption of the product in the time frame?

I also don't know what I should do with the column "Available Stock". You write -377 every row but I don't see that you really use that column.

Could you explain your columns a little better?

If you need any help please let me know.

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Denis

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Re: New column based on fixed amount

ERD — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:43:01 GMT

Hello Anonymous ,

Well, from the examples you've provided here is what can be concluded:

you have a constant here which is called Available Stock and = -377
your new column calculation:
- first element = constant + current Procurement Amount (-377 + 268)
- all other elements = current Procurement Amount + previous row calculation result

Is this what you want to achive?

Re: New column based on fixed amount

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:43:47 GMT

Exactly ERD ! 🙂

Re: New column based on fixed amount

ERD — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:58:20 GMT

If you want to have a Calculated DAX column that uses the previous row's calculated value as an input, thenDAX won't help you as DAX cannot do recursion. You can read the explanation here: Refer to previous row of same column.

Power Query instead can be used to achieve the result.

Here is the code that might help (it might be not the most elegant one, but it works):

#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Previous step", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type), #"Added CalcStep1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "CalcStep1", each if [Index] = 1 then -377 + [ProcurementAmount] else [ProcurementAmount]), #"Added Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added CalcStep1", "Result", each List.Accumulate(List.Range(#"Added CalcStep1"[CalcStep1],0,[Index]),0,(state,current)=> state+current)), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Column",{"Index", "CalcStep1"})

The idea here was to create an Index column, get the list of Procurement Amount values with the first element changed by constant and then calculate the result. Transitional columns may be deleted afterwards.

In a table visual any filter can be used further (like Result >0, etc.).

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Re: New column based on fixed amount

ERD — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:58:40 GMT

Another approach is just sum all the previous Procurement Amount values from the start until the current one. In this case you can use DAX:

Result = var firstDateValue = MIN(Table[Date]) var currentDate = Table[Date] var constant = -377 var valueOnFirstDate = CALCULATE(MAX(Table[ProcurementAmount]) + constant, FILTER(Table, Table[Date] = firstDateValue)) var sumValue = CALCULATE(SUM(Table[ProcurementAmount]), FILTER(Table, Table[Date] <= currentDate)) var result = IF(Table[Date] = firstDateValue, valueOnFirstDate, constant + sumValue) return result

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