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Hi Everyone,
I need a dax function that provides a cumulative sum based on a variable range of dates.
I have a table with details of the Contract:
N contract | Customer | Start date | End date |
#1 | AAA | 01/01/2020 | 29/02/2020 |
#2 | AAA | 01/03/2020 | 30/06/2020 |
And a table of Deliveries:
customer | date of delivery | quantity |
AAA | 02/01/2020 | 1 |
AAA | 15/02/2020 | 3 |
AAA | 10/03/2020 | 2 |
AAA | 05/04/2020 | 3 |
AAA | 29/05/2020 | 1 |
I need to monitor the cumulative sum of quantity delivered, for each month, referring to the duration of the contract.
Example of expected result:
Month | q delivered | cumulative sum |
Jen | 1 | 1 |
Feb | 3 | 4 |
Mar | 2 | 2 |
Apr | 3 | 5 |
May | 1 | 6 |
Jun | 0 | 6 |
Can anyone please help?
Thanks
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@STF29 , your question is interesting and here's a tricky solution.
Convert your contract table to the following form for the purpose of filtering in DAX,
| Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
@STF29 , your question is interesting and here's a tricky solution.
Convert your contract table to the following form for the purpose of filtering in DAX,
| Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
Hi @CNENFRNL, thank you for your quick support!
Could you please suggest a way to convert the contract table to the format that you proposed?
Many thanks
Hi, @STF29 , in the attachment of my preceding reply, you might want to go through all applied steps of convesion in detail in Power Query.
| Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
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