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changezshafiq
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3 years ago

Help with Add columns across two tables

Hello,   I am having an issue with adding multiple columns across two table which are connected through "Date" field. First table hosts item sales data, while second table has "Dates" spanned acros...
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FreemanZ
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3 years ago

hi changezshafiq 

ADDCOLUMNS returns a table, so comes the error. 

 

What do you plan to do further with the virtual table?

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    changezshafiq
    New Member
    3 years ago

    Hi,

    I need to use these calculations to determine Last Week sales, Last 4 Week sales, Last 13 Week sales by referencing the Week Ending Date and LW Date in the date table which looks like below:

     

     

    so I want to create additional measure such as

    LW Unit Sales = CALCULATE([POS UNITS SOLD],tbl_Date[Week Ending]=tbl_Date[X LW])

    L4W Unit Sales = CALCULATE([POS UNITS SOLD,tbl_Date[Week Ending]>tbl_Date[X L4W],tbl_Date[Week Ending]<=tbl_Date[X LW])
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      tamerj1
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      3 years ago

      Hi changezshafiq 
      What FreemanZ means is what are you using the ADDCOLUMNS table for? Why do you need to have both Units Sold and Dollars Sold in one virtual table?

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        changezshafiq
        New Member
        3 years ago

        I do not intend to create a virtual table, I just needed to insert new columns in sales table with different time measure shown below. I would then use these metrics and map them to Category, Geography, etc for my dashboard.