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Is there way to calculate cummulative number of occurences based on the date coulmn.
For example:
In one table i have the information when something was created:
date | name
1/1/2016 | abc
12/1/2016 | osks
13/3/2016 | doferf
and in the second one i want to have a number of "names" by month name (lets assume i have a Date table with month names related with the first table). So if to names were created in january the sum i 2, if no names were created in february total number is still 2, one was created in march so total number now is 3, and so on....
Month name | Number of names
January | 2
February | 2
March | 3
Is there a wasy to do this?
Thanks!
I'm still learning and believe this can be done w/ powerbi's date functions like EARLIER and PAST. But in my case I needed a to do this with a non-date type so I came to something like this:
Measure = IF( HASONEVALUE( Table1[date] ), CALCULATE( DISTINCTCOUNT([name]), FILTER( ALLSELECTED(Table1[date]), [date] <= VALUES( Table1[date] ))))
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