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sales the last 20 weekdays

jayjay0306 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:09:34 GMT

Hi experts,

I hoope you can help me here:

I need to calculate the sales for a product in the last 20 week days. My problem is to frame the timeperiod to 20 weekdays, not only last 20 days(dates).

Here is my problem:

I have this table (for simplicity, it is just showing all products):

As you can see I have tried to make a measure showing sales for the last 20 weekdays with this:

Sales 20 days_Sum = CALCULATE(SUM('KPI Sell In'[Sales In Packs CY]),'Calendar'[CALENDAR_WEEK_END_IND]>0,DATESBETWEEN('Calendar'[Date],TODAY()-21,TODAY()-1))

but in this way I only get the latest 20 days from today (12-06-2022 - 11-17-2022) which is only 14 weekdays. Result: 9.103.800

What I need is the full 20 weekdays (in this case the period: 12-06-2022 - 11-09-2022) Result: 11.961.019

The complexity is, that the number of weekdays changes depending on the day in week.

In short: How do I make a measure showing the sales for rolling 20 weekdays in this setup?

Any ideas wil be be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

Br,

JayJay0306

Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

Greg_Deckler — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:40:30 GMT

jayjay0306 Generally you do something like filter for the last 28 days but then filter that for WEEKDAY([Date],2) < 6 and then you could ADDCOLUMNS a simple counter for rows where the date is greater than or equal to the currrent date and then filter that down for this counter <= 20. Generally easier if you use a SUMX approach instead of CALCULATE.

Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

jayjay0306 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:43:03 GMT

Thanks Greg, are you takling about making a calculated table? I am not sure if I understand all what you're saying? Could you please show me some of the way?

thanks.

br,

jayjay0306

Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:52:14 GMT

Hi jayjay0306 ,

According to your description, here are my steps you can follow as a solution.

(1) We can create a calculated column.

Weekday = var a=WEEKDAY('Table'[Date],2) return IF(a<=5,"weekday","weekend")

(2)We can create a measure.

Measure = var a=FILTER(ALL('Table'),[Date]<TODAY()&&'Table'[Weekday]="weekday") var b=TOPN(20,a,[Date],DESC) return SUMX(b,[Value])

(3) Then the result is as follows.

Best Regards,

Neeko Tang

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Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

jayjay0306 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:01:36 GMT

Thanks Neeko Tang,

We are close. However, it seem like it doesn't work as intended:

First of all, your "weekday"- calculation, I already have defined in the table (i.e. "WEEKEND_IND"), therefore I use this instead.

Hence, "your" calculation look like this:

_Measure = var a=FILTER(ALL('Calendar'),'Calendar'[Date]&&'Calendar'[CALENDAR_WEEK_END_IND]=1) var b=TOPN(20,a,'Calendar'[Date],DESC) return SUMX(b,SUM('KPI Sell In'[Sales In Packs CY]))

However, the result doesn't show the sum of sales for the last 20 days. It simply multiplies the sales each day with the number of days shown in TOPN() ?

example:

in the following I only pick one date (i.e. TOPN(1,....):

_Measure = var a=FILTER(ALL('Calendar'),'Calendar'[Date]&&'Calendar'[WEEKEND_IND]=1) var b=TOPN(1,a,'Calendar'[Date],DESC) return SUMX(b,SUM('Sales'[Sales]))

Result:

If we look at fx.the date "12-06-2022" we get the same sales amount on this date = 736.430.

This is fine.

But if I change the calcualtion to 2 days (i.e. TOPN(2,.....):

_Measure = var a=FILTER(ALL('Calendar'),'Calendar'[Date]&&'Calendar'[WEEKEND_IND]=1) var b=TOPN(2,a,'Calendar'[Date],DESC) return SUMX(b,SUM('Sales'[Sales]))

Result:

...I don't get the expected: 736.430+507368 = 1.243.798,

instead I get: 2 x 736.430 = 1.472.860 ?

Do you know why?

Br,

Jayjay0306

Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:52:05 GMT

Hi jayjay0306 ,

Please create a calculated column in the sales table.

CALENDAR_WEEK_END_IND = var a=WEEKDAY('Sales'[Date],2) return IF(a<=5,1,0)

Then create a measure in the sales table.

Measure = var a=FILTER(ALL('Sales'),[Date]<=SELECTEDVALUE('Sales'[Date])&&'Sales'[CALENDAR_WEEK_END_IND]=1) var b=TOPN(2,a,[Date],DESC) return SUMX(b,Sales[Sales])

Then the result is as follows.

Best Regards,

Neeko Tang

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Re: sales the last 20 weekdays

jayjay0306 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:54:53 GMT

Thanks Neeko, now I can see what you are getting at, and it works. 🙂

Br,

jayjay0306