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abukapsoun
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Calculation support

Hi Gents,

 

Need your support with the following:

 

I have this table

  TypeP01P..P12
CountryXSalesCoffee   
CountryXSales MarginCoffee   
CountryXSalesTea   
CountryXSales MarginTea   

 

 

I Want to do the following:

Calculate Q1 Sales = P01+P02+P03

Calculate Q1 Sales Margin = P01+P02+P03

.

same until Q4

 

I thought of Unpivotting P01-P12 but then what?

 

I want to have a stacked graph where I can display 2 bars, one for sales and one for sales margin next to each others while the x-axis is the quarter.

 

And then create another stacked column to display the sales and sales margin while the X axis is the Type

 

Thanks

 

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CNENFRNL
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Hi, @abukapsoun , how about calculating number of quarter after unpivoting P01-P12. The sales data then is tranformed to a one-dimensional table. A pbix file is attached for your reference.

Screenshot 2020-09-13 195934.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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amitchandak
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@abukapsoun , First of unpivot the table. Then Create Period table With Period and Qtr , if you have the year you can add that. Or Create a year period table. Create period rank if needed qtr rank .

 

new column in period table

Qtr = Switch (true(),

[period] in {"P01","P02","P03"}, "1",

[period] in {"P04","P05","P06"}, "2"

///keep on adding

}

 

Here Date is your period table

 

Month Rank = RANKX(all('Date'),'Date'[Period],,ASC,Dense)  // period or year -period
This Month = CALCULATE(sum('order'[Qty]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Month Rank]=max('Date'[Month Rank])))
Last Month = CALCULATE(sum('order'[Qty]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Month Rank]=max('Date'[Month Rank])-1))
Last year Month= CALCULATE(sum('order'[Qty]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Month Rank]=(max('Date'[Month Rank]) -12)))

 

Qtr or Qtr Rank

 

Qtr Rank = RANKX(all('Date'),'Date'[Qtr],,ASC,Dense)  //on Qtr or Year - Qtr
This Qtr = CALCULATE(sum('order'[Qty]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Qtr Rank]=max('Date'[Qtr Rank])))
Last Qtr = CALCULATE(sum('order'[Qty]), FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[Qtr Rank]=max('Date'[Qtr Rank])-1))

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CNENFRNL
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Hi, @abukapsoun , how about calculating number of quarter after unpivoting P01-P12. The sales data then is tranformed to a one-dimensional table. A pbix file is attached for your reference.

Screenshot 2020-09-13 195934.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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