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sgetgood
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Cancelled vs Active in Column Chart

Hi all,

 

I have a table, Gifts, with a Status field that can be either Cancelled or Active. The original setup is shown by the field Type = Recurring Gift, and the payments to the gift are of type = Recurring Gift Payment. There are both gift date and gift status date fields.

 

Gift IDGift DateGift TypeGift StatusGift Status DateGift Instalment Frequency
101/06/2021Recurring GiftCancelled09/02/2024Monthly
209/06/2021Recurring Gift PaymentActive Monthly
309/06/2021Recurring Gift PaymentActive Monthly
401/06/2021Recurring Gift PaymentActive 

Monthly

 

I want to show how many payments were made at any point in time, so recurring gift payments with status active, and Gift Date in the x axis. This is simple enough.

 

I also want to show in the same chart, recurring gifts with status cancelled by Gift Status Date as negative values. This is where I'm getting stuck.

 

Is this possible?

 

 

 

 

 

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bnjmnnl
Helper III
Helper III

Hello! You can add a column with an IF statement as: if status = active, 1, if status = cancelled, -1. THen use this column as the value in the Y-axis. Then you can use status as a legend to seperate them etc. Active will only have + values and cancelled will only have - values

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speedramps
Super User
Super User

Thank you @sgetgood 

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speedramps
Super User
Super User

Hi @sgetgood 

 

Please can you also accept my solution.

I provided it first and with examples.

It is polite and sensible to click [accept solution] and the thumbs up to reward helpers.

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speedramps
Super User
Super User

You can create DAX measures ...

 

activecount = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS(yourdata),
    yourdata[Gift Status] = "Active")

 

cancelledcount = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS(yourdata),
    yourdata[Gift Status] = "Cancelled")

* - 1    

 

speedramps_1-1750945466097.png

 

Please click thumbs up because I havce tried to help.

 

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speedramps
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You could add a column or columns in Power Query

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bnjmnnl
Helper III
Helper III

Hello! You can add a column with an IF statement as: if status = active, 1, if status = cancelled, -1. THen use this column as the value in the Y-axis. Then you can use status as a legend to seperate them etc. Active will only have + values and cancelled will only have - values

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