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ValeriaBreve
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help with a formula to filter the sum of a calculation

Hello,

I am trying to perform what is seemingly an easy calculation but I cannot get there in DAX.

I am reading several forecats files, to which I give a version: "n" for this month, "n-1" for last month, etc.

I also have an actual spending table, with spending per month up to the latest month of available data (so no versioning). 

What I need to do it to be able to sum up the actuals but only up to the date of the version selected (or version used as a legend in a chart is what I would like to achieve, to show the different curves of forecast + actual per month by file version).

 

I have a table with file versions that I am reading, that I have now included in my date table (which I hope is the correct way of doing thigs):

 

ValeriaBreve_0-1685115694511.png

 

The Actuals table just has 4 columns: Project Number, Date, Spending and Year

 

then I have tried to created a measure for summing the actuals, but it is not working 😞

 

Spending Versioned (US$) =
VAR VersionSelected = (SELECTEDVALUE(DateTable[EOM Date]))
VAR ActualsAmount = CALCULATE(SUM('ACTUALS'[Spending USH$]),
FILTER(
    DateTable,DateTable[Date]<VersionSelected)
)
RETURN
ActualsAmount

 

Can you please guide me in how to do this properly?

 

Thanks!

Kind regards

Valeria

 

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some_bih
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Hi @ValeriaBreve  check bracket at start and at end in part VAR VersionSelected = (SELECTEDVALUE(DateTable[EOM Date])). I hope this help.





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