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Teaman
Frequent Visitor

Average Value of Previous Months by Day

Hi All,

I'm got some data that covers each day from the last few months and looks like the below.  Theres different volume figures on different days but what I need is a measure that can calculate the average volume of previous months by month day.

 

Date

Product ID

Day of Month

Volume

01/03/2023

1

1

0

01/03/2023

2

1

0

01/04/2023

1

1

0

01/04/2023

2

1

60

01/05/2023

1

1

10

01/05/2023

2

1

10

02/03/2023

1

2

5

02/03/2023

2

2

0

02/04/2023

1

2

30

02/04/2023

2

2

0

02/05/2023

1

2

20

02/05/2023

2

2

20

 

Below is what I'm wanting the measure to do (when in a table with the date). For e.g.  the 2nd month day is doing (5+30+20+20)/3 =25  (The 3 is the number of months). I've been able to do this in a calculated column but I need it as a measure to keep the Product ID filter.

Date

Measure #1

01/03/2023

26.66

01/04/2023

26.66

01/05/2023

26.66

02/03/2023

25

02/04/2023

25

02/05/2023

25


I've tried a few things but can't understand why the below won't work:

Average per Month Day = CALCULATE(sum(Data[Volume]), ALLEXCEPT(Data, Data[Day of Month]))

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Hi @Teaman,

According to your descriptions, this expected result should be calculate by summary volume with year month group and divided with current month day count. SO I think the formula second condition should be used with month function, or they will get wrong results. (the displayed date format does not affect the Dax year/month function, they will auto extract correspond date levels to calculate except you are work with date strings which stored with text data types)

AVG per Day by month group =
VAR currDate =
    MAX ( Data[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DIVIDE ( SUM ( Data[Volume] ), COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Data[Date] ) ) ),
        FILTER (
            ALLSELECTED ( Data ),
            YEAR ( [Date] ) = YEAR ( currDate )
                && MONTH ( [Date] ) = MONTH ( currDate )
        )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

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v-shex-msft
Community Support
Community Support

HI @Teaman,

You can use the following measure formula to get the average volume based on month group:

AVG per Day by month group =
VAR currDate =
    MAX ( Data[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DIVIDE ( SUM ( Data[Volume] ), COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Data[Date] ) ) ),
        FILTER (
            ALLSELECTED ( Data ),
            YEAR ( [Date] ) = YEAR ( currDate )
                && MONTH ( [Data] ) = MONTH ( currDate )
        )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

Hi @v-shex-msft ,

 

I forgot to say that the dates in my tables are in the form DD/MM/YY so what I am after is the volumne grouped by the day of the month. I managed to edit your code to show this as below. Need to check this works with a different dataset before accepting

AVG per Day by month group =
VAR currDate =
    MAX ( Data[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DIVIDE ( SUM ( Data[Volume] ), COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Data[Date] ) ) ),
        FILTER (
            ALLSELECTED ( Data ),
            YEAR ( [Date] ) = YEAR ( currDate )
                && DAY([Date]) = DAY ( currDate )
        )
    )
Thanks for your help!

 

Teaman
Frequent Visitor

Hi @v-shex-msft ,

Thank you again for your help. I need to turn this measure into a running total of each day of each month (with the values of each month being the same). I've tried the standard way's of doing running totals (like the below) and a few other things but nothing has been working. Do you have any ideas?

Running Total =  CALCULATE (
    [AVG per Day by month group],
    filter(
    ALLSELECTED(Data),
    Data[Date] <= max(Data[Date])
))
 



Hi @Teaman,

According to your descriptions, this expected result should be calculate by summary volume with year month group and divided with current month day count. SO I think the formula second condition should be used with month function, or they will get wrong results. (the displayed date format does not affect the Dax year/month function, they will auto extract correspond date levels to calculate except you are work with date strings which stored with text data types)

AVG per Day by month group =
VAR currDate =
    MAX ( Data[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DIVIDE ( SUM ( Data[Volume] ), COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Data[Date] ) ) ),
        FILTER (
            ALLSELECTED ( Data ),
            YEAR ( [Date] ) = YEAR ( currDate )
                && MONTH ( [Date] ) = MONTH ( currDate )
        )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

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