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Hello, I am trying to count the difference in points between the latest ID and the previous one for each employee. I have a very simple bug somewhere and I can't find it...
id | employe | points | output |
200 | A | 100 | -10 |
200 | B | 150 | 10 |
200 | C | 130 | 50 |
190 | A | 110 | |
190 | B | 140 | 40 |
190 | C | 80 | 30 |
180 | C | 50 | |
180 | B | 100 |
My function returns different values than the output from the table as if it was looking for the maximum value from all rows.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Total Points = SUM ( pan[points] )
Output =
VAR PreviousValue =
CALCULATE (
[Total Points],
OFFSET (
-1,
ALL ( pan[employee], pan[id] ),
ORDERBY ( pan[id], ASC ),
PARTITIONBY ( pan[employee] )
)
)
VAR CurrentValue =
[Total Points]
VAR GroupingByID =
ISINSCOPE ( pan[id] )
VAR Result =
IF (
NOT ISBLANK ( PreviousValue )
&& GroupingByID,
CurrentValue - PreviousValue
)
RETURN
Result
Total Points = SUM ( pan[points] )
Output =
VAR PreviousValue =
CALCULATE (
[Total Points],
OFFSET (
-1,
ALL ( pan[employee], pan[id] ),
ORDERBY ( pan[id], ASC ),
PARTITIONBY ( pan[employee] )
)
)
VAR CurrentValue =
[Total Points]
VAR GroupingByID =
ISINSCOPE ( pan[id] )
VAR Result =
IF (
NOT ISBLANK ( PreviousValue )
&& GroupingByID,
CurrentValue - PreviousValue
)
RETURN
Result
How large is the dataset?
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It is not large, as it has about 100,000 records
Would need more information to understand the root cause. Are you getting the error after creating a calculated column? and make sure the dataset is sorted as well
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I solved this problem and as you can see in the picture sometimes it counts right and sometimes wrong. What could this be due to?
Hi,
Create a new column to calculate the difference in points between the current row and the previous row for the same employee:
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Thanks for your answer 🙂 It should work but yet a message about insufficient memory appears.