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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Aggregate based on parent child elements

Hi, I have a following table and its expected result. Some of my elements have child elements. I would like to calculate a sum of Time for parent and all its children.     Thanks for your h...
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I would suggest making sure you have a Parent ID for all rows. If the ID field doesn't have a parent ID, populate the ParentID with ID field when loading your data. This way you can just sum based on the Parent ID.

  • fhill's avatar
    8 years ago

    Just throw in a Calculated Column with your selection logic, then used your Calculated Column for the sumazation... 

    Cal_Column = If(ISBLANK(Table1[ParentID]),Table1[ID],Table1[ParentID])