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I want to get the previous value partitioned by country and order by year like the screenshot below highlighted in red.
I tried the following and the result is not as expected
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Hi @sekela
This calculate column code should work
PreviousValue =
VAR CurrentCountry = Sheet1[Country]
VAR CurrentYear = Sheet1[Year]
VAR FilteredTable =
FILTER (
Sheet1,
Sheet1[Country] = CurrentCountry
&& Sheet1[Year] = CurrentYear - 1
)
VAR Result =
SUMX ( FilteredTable, Sheet1[Total Sales] )
RETURN
Result
Hi @sekela
This calculate column code should work
PreviousValue =
VAR CurrentCountry = Sheet1[Country]
VAR CurrentYear = Sheet1[Year]
VAR FilteredTable =
FILTER (
Sheet1,
Sheet1[Country] = CurrentCountry
&& Sheet1[Year] = CurrentYear - 1
)
VAR Result =
SUMX ( FilteredTable, Sheet1[Total Sales] )
RETURN
Result
Hi,
Could you add sample data in a table format and a snippet about the "not expected values"? For now, I recommend trying to reverse < directions here:
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Year | Country | Quantity | Unit price | Total Sales | RowNumber |
2017 | USA | 5 | 10 | 50 | 1 |
2018 | USA | 21 | 5 | 105 | 2 |
2019 | USA | 4 | 11 | 44 | 3 |
2020 | USA | 8 | 3 | 24 | 4 |
2021 | USA | 12 | 7 | 84 | 5 |
2017 | Japan | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
2018 | Japan | 6 | 11 | 66 | 2 |
2019 | Japan | 8 | 2 | 16 | 3 |
2020 | Japan | 9 | 13 | 117 | 4 |
2021 | Japan | 3 | 21 | 63 | 5 |
2017 | China | 7 | 3 | 21 | 1 |
2018 | China | 8 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
2019 | China | 21 | 35 | 735 | 3 |
2020 | China | 1 | 20 | 20 | 4 |
2021 | China | 6 | 15 | 90 | 5 |
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