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Anonymous
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Cumulative substraction over categories

I have a matrix table in PBI and I would like to calculate a kind of cumulative substraction over the categories. The main goal is to achieve the "Expected W-1" field, so in a nutshell: for Category 1, the Expected W-1 calculation calculated in this way 10119 - 7427 = 2692, 

Further information that I am using a simple DAX measure = 
Count = Count(fact_table) (this is required because additonal filtering can be applied in the future. 

CATEGORIESCurrent W-1Expected W-1How it is calculated? 
Category 1 101192692Category 1 - Category 2
Category 274273312Category 2 - Category 3 
Category 341152127Category 3 - Category 4
Category 4 1988109Category 4 - Category 5
Category 5 187997Category 5 - Category 6
Category 6 1782383Category 6 - Category 7
Category 713991399Category 7
Total2870910119 


Is there any way to solve this?

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@Anonymous 

Please try

Count.AllOpportunities.New =
VAR CategoriesAndCounts =
ADDCOLUMNS (
ALLSELECTED ( Category_Table[Category_Order] ),
"@Count",
CALCULATE (
[Count.AllOpportunities],
ALLEXCEPT ( Category_Table, Category_Table[Category_Order] )
)
)
RETURN
SUMX (
VALUES ( Category_Table[Category_Order] ),
VAR CurrentOrder = Category_Table[Category_Order]
VAR CurrentCount = [Count.AllOpportunities]
VAR NextCount =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
FILTER ( CategoriesAndCounts, Category_Table[Category_Order] > CurrentOrder ),
Category_Table[Category_Order], ASC
),
[@Count]
)
RETURN
CurrentCount - NextCount
)

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ahmedashour
Regular Visitor

Just create the following visual calculation

Expected W-1 = [Current W-1] - NEXT([Current W-1])
tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @Anonymous 

what determines the order of CATEGORIES? What is the DAX code of the Current W1 measure?

Anonymous
Not applicable

The simplified model looks like this: 

mpataki32_0-1741717870183.png


In a nutshell I am ordering the "Category_label" field with the "Category_order" field with the built in function (under the "Column tools"), the "Category_order" field is integer. 

The Current W1 measure looks like this: 

 

Count.AllOpportunities = 
VAR previousweek = [Date.8to14Days]
RETURN
CALCULATE(COUNT('fact_table'[UniqueID]),FILTER('fact_table','fact_table'[Event_date]> previousweek))

 

 
The previousweek variable returns a single date to determine what is the cut off date. 

@Anonymous 

Please try

Count.AllOpportunities.New =
VAR CategoriesAndCounts =
ADDCOLUMNS (
ALLSELECTED ( Category_Table[Category_Order] ),
"@Count",
CALCULATE (
[Count.AllOpportunities],
ALLEXCEPT ( Category_Table, Category_Table[Category_Order] )
)
)
RETURN
SUMX (
VALUES ( Category_Table[Category_Order] ),
VAR CurrentOrder = Category_Table[Category_Order]
VAR CurrentCount = [Count.AllOpportunities]
VAR NextCount =
MAXX (
TOPN (
1,
FILTER ( CategoriesAndCounts, Category_Table[Category_Order] > CurrentOrder ),
Category_Table[Category_Order], ASC
),
[@Count]
)
RETURN
CurrentCount - NextCount
)

Anonymous
Not applicable

and it worked 😮 thank you so much! but I really need to ask that did you use any kind of help, because that was outstanding

@Anonymous 

Definitely no AI. Not even a laptop 😂 I just typed the code using my phone

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