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giorajo
Helper I
Helper I

Always Displaying Same Value

I got a matrix displaying the name of clients in the rows and the sales per month on the column. 

 

Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 3.25.54 AM.png

 

I got a Year slicer for this matrix. I have a measure that gets the December sales of the previous year.

 

What I intend to do is add another column to display the sales for the month divided by the said December sales for the previous year. My problem is that the December sales is cannot be used monthly columns.

 

I hope my question makes sense. Thank you in advance.

 

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dedelman_clng
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @giorajo 

 

Try this code

 

Total Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales]))

Sales Rel to Prev Dec =
VAR __PrevYear =
    YEAR ( MAX ( DateTab[Date] ) ) - 1
VAR __PrevDec =
    CALCULATE (
        [Total Sales],
        DATESBETWEEN (
            DateTab[Date],
            DATE ( __PrevYear, 12, 1 ),
            DATE ( __PrevYear, 12, 31 )
        )
    )
RETURN
    CALCULATE ( DIVIDE ( [Total Sales], __PrevDec ), 0 )

 

2019 (vs Dec 2018)

2020-08-26 15_12_42-scratch3 - Power BI Desktop.png

 

2020 (vs Dec 2019)

2020-08-26 15_12_53-scratch3 - Power BI Desktop.png

 

Hope this helps

David

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
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Hi,

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @giorajo 

you have to create a measure for each month and user it in the table chart

Jan_Dec = [Jan]/[Calc_December]

Feb_Dec = [Feb]/[Calc_December]

...

Jan_Dec = [Dec]/[Calc_December]

dedelman_clng
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @giorajo 

 

Try this code

 

Total Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales]))

Sales Rel to Prev Dec =
VAR __PrevYear =
    YEAR ( MAX ( DateTab[Date] ) ) - 1
VAR __PrevDec =
    CALCULATE (
        [Total Sales],
        DATESBETWEEN (
            DateTab[Date],
            DATE ( __PrevYear, 12, 1 ),
            DATE ( __PrevYear, 12, 31 )
        )
    )
RETURN
    CALCULATE ( DIVIDE ( [Total Sales], __PrevDec ), 0 )

 

2019 (vs Dec 2018)

2020-08-26 15_12_42-scratch3 - Power BI Desktop.png

 

2020 (vs Dec 2019)

2020-08-26 15_12_53-scratch3 - Power BI Desktop.png

 

Hope this helps

David

Thank you very much, @dedelman_clng !

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