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Preetish_1
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Helper I

Calculating difference between ROWS

Hi everyone,

 

I am new to Power BI and DAX and I'm finding it difficult to find the difference between two rows.
As shown in the sample data, I have many Machine codes, and cumulative values of thier operating hours and cycles are available in the table. The data is in no particular order, and I would like to be able to find the hours and cylces for a particular month by calculating the difference between two consecutive months as a Calculated Column or a Measure.

 

 

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Preetish

 

 

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v-chuncz-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@Preetish_1,

 

You may create calculated columns as shown below.

CurrentDate =
DATEVALUE (
    RIGHT ( Table1[Date], 4 ) & "-"
        & MID ( Table1[Date], 4, 2 )
        & "-"
        & LEFT ( Table1[Date], 2 )
)
Difference =
VAR Prev =
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( Table1[Values] ),
        ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[MC Code], Table1[Type] ),
        PREVIOUSMONTH ( Table1[CurrentDate] )
    )
RETURN
    IF ( ISBLANK ( Prev ), BLANK (), Table1[Values] - Prev )
Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-chuncz-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@Preetish_1,

 

You may create calculated columns as shown below.

CurrentDate =
DATEVALUE (
    RIGHT ( Table1[Date], 4 ) & "-"
        & MID ( Table1[Date], 4, 2 )
        & "-"
        & LEFT ( Table1[Date], 2 )
)
Difference =
VAR Prev =
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( Table1[Values] ),
        ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[MC Code], Table1[Type] ),
        PREVIOUSMONTH ( Table1[CurrentDate] )
    )
RETURN
    IF ( ISBLANK ( Prev ), BLANK (), Table1[Values] - Prev )
Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you @vanessafvg, I tried it but I did not know how to filter the data.

Thank you very much @v-chuncz-msft , your recommendation works perfectly.

Thanks for your help.

 

 

vanessafvg
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Preetish_1 have you tried previous month?  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634758.aspx

 

 





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