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Gustavo_Lincoln
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How to sum only the projects that end up in the red

Hy guys!

I was trying to create a visualization to be able to see clearly which project is paying for the new projects that can't be self sustainable yet. To do it, I have to be able to see the sum of the prejudice of all the red projects in a period of time. 

I have one big table with all the projects with the incomes and expenses in the same collum and I need to be able to sum incomes and expenses of all the projects which, in the filtered period of time, have more expenses than incomes.

Gustavo_Lincoln_1-1677772596644.png


I was able to only show de sum in the negative projects but i can't find a away to sum then. I believe that I would need to create a temporary table to do it but I don't know how.

Please help, I'm stuck looking for answer the whole day.

 






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hi @Gustavo_Lincoln 

try like:

Measure =
VAR _table =
ADDCOLUMNS(
   VALUES(TableName[Project]),
   "ValueSum",
   CALCULATE(SUM(TableName[Value]))
)
RETURN
SUMX(
   FILTER(
       _table,
       [ValueSum]<0
   ),
   [ValueSum]
)

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Gustavo_Lincoln
Frequent Visitor

Thanks a lot men!

You saved me, I knew the solution had something to do with creating a table but i couldnt figure out how. I was going under a rabbit hole thinking itwould be a super complex code.

ValtteriN
Super User
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Hi,

One way to solve this is to create a measure like this:

CALCULATE(SUM(projects[value]),ALL(projects),projects[value]<0)

This way your sum will only consider projects with negative values.

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Thank for the answer!

This wont help because my database has more than one line in each project, if i creature this measure, I will create a sum with all the negative values of all my projects and I want to create a sum of all the values of a project if the result of this is negative.

Example:

ProjectValue
A1000
A-300
B-500
B200
B-300
C500
C-800


The result of the measure should be the sum of projects B and C -> -900

hi @Gustavo_Lincoln 

try like:

Measure =
VAR _table =
ADDCOLUMNS(
   VALUES(TableName[Project]),
   "ValueSum",
   CALCULATE(SUM(TableName[Value]))
)
RETURN
SUMX(
   FILTER(
       _table,
       [ValueSum]<0
   ),
   [ValueSum]
)

verified like:

FreemanZ_0-1677908087060.png

 

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