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Calculate average orders customer first, second, third etc. month
The problem I have is that I want to calculated the amount of orders an user places per month since creation.
I have two tables User:
| UserID | Creation User Date |
| 1 | 01-05-15 |
| 2 | 02-06-15 |
| 3 | 03-07-15 |
| 4 | 04-08-15 |
| 5 | 05-09-15 |
Orders:
| Order Date | UserID |
| 02-06-15 | 1 |
| 03-07-15 | 1 |
| 04-08-15 | 2 |
| 05-09-15 | 4 |
| 02-11-15 | 5 |
I wanted to COUNTROWS per user in the offset period since the account creation, but I can only find functions or patterns to do a fix period for ALL users.
Does someone know how to calculate per user the amount of orders in the first, second etc. month of it's lifetime?
Desired outcome would be something like.
| Month since creation | Average amount orders |
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 4 |
Hi Anonymous
Try this:
1. Create a 1-to-many unidirectional relationship between UserTable[UserID] and OrdersTable[UserID]
2. Create a one-column calculated table:
AuxTable = VAR _MaxDiff = MAXX ( ADDCOLUMNS ( UserTable; "MonthDiff"; DATEDIFF ( UserTable[Creation User Date]; CALCULATE ( MAX ( OrdersTable[Order Date] ) ); MONTH ) ); [MonthDiff] ) RETURN SELECTCOLUMNS ( GENERATESERIES ( 1; _MaxDiff + 1); "MonthSinceCreation"; [Value] )3. Place AuxTable[MonthSinceCreation] just created in the previous step in the rows of a matrix visual
4. Create this measure and place it in values of the matrix visual:
AverageAmountOrders = AVERAGEX ( ALL ( UserTable); CALCULATE ( COUNT ( OrdersTable[Order Date] ); FILTER ( CALCULATETABLE ( OrdersTable ); DATEDIFF ( UserTable[Creation User Date]; OrdersTable[Order Date]; MONTH ) <= (SELECTEDVALUE ( AuxTable[MonthSinceCreation] ) - 1) ) ) ) + 0
6 Replies
- AlB
Community Champion
Hi Anonymous
Try this:
1. Create a 1-to-many unidirectional relationship between UserTable[UserID] and OrdersTable[UserID]
2. Create a one-column calculated table:
AuxTable = VAR _MaxDiff = MAXX ( ADDCOLUMNS ( UserTable; "MonthDiff"; DATEDIFF ( UserTable[Creation User Date]; CALCULATE ( MAX ( OrdersTable[Order Date] ) ); MONTH ) ); [MonthDiff] ) RETURN SELECTCOLUMNS ( GENERATESERIES ( 1; _MaxDiff + 1); "MonthSinceCreation"; [Value] )3. Place AuxTable[MonthSinceCreation] just created in the previous step in the rows of a matrix visual
4. Create this measure and place it in values of the matrix visual:
AverageAmountOrders = AVERAGEX ( ALL ( UserTable); CALCULATE ( COUNT ( OrdersTable[Order Date] ); FILTER ( CALCULATETABLE ( OrdersTable ); DATEDIFF ( UserTable[Creation User Date]; OrdersTable[Order Date]; MONTH ) <= (SELECTEDVALUE ( AuxTable[MonthSinceCreation] ) - 1) ) ) ) + 0- AnonymousNot applicable
Hi AlB,
Thank you very much for helping out.
When I put these in a matrix I get only a total average. It seems something goes wrong with making the series.
Do you have further suggestions by any chance?
Thank you very much again for helping.
- AlB
Community Champion
Anonymous
what do you mean by a total average? I would need a clear example based on sample data with the expected result to understand what you are trying to do
- Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Hi,
Please clarify how you arrived at the numbers in the average amount orders column? How did you get 10,5 etc.