Running total previous year in one measure

[Anonymous]

HI All, 

I am setting up a calculation group and am looking for ONE measure which gives me the running total of previous year. I cannot reference another cumulative measure and use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR. So I only have the [total sales] measure which I want to refrence in the new cumulative last year measure. 

I Want to accomplish this 

Month	This year RT	Previous year RT
1	2	4
2	5	6
3	7	8
4	9	9
5	11	11
6	14	12
7	17	15
8	19	18
9	30	22

Hope you can help me

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

A more specific expression can be provided with example data that has you Date and Sales Tables/Column, but you can get a PY RT with an expression like this.  Note this assume you have a Date table, marked as a date table.

PY RT =
VAR vThisDate =
    MAX ( Date[Date] )
VAR vPYThisDate =
    EDATE (
        vThisDate,
        -12
    )
VAR vPYStart =
    DATE ( YEAR ( vPYThisDate ), 1, 1 )
VAR vResult =
    CALCULATE (
        [Total Sales],
        FILTER (
            ALL ( Date[Date] ),
            Date[Date] >= vPYStart
                && Date[Date] <= vPYThisDate
        )
    )
RETURN
    vResult

Pat