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KhaledSayed
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Changing The Total Value Calculation (Subtraction instead of addition)

Hi BI Users And MS PBI Community,

I'm Trying to get the diffrence values Between my "Budget", "Actuals" Columns in the below matrix table..
The structure of the data I'm using is similar to Second PS ("Actuals and Budget", "Date Dim")

Sorry: I had to hide a lot of things regarding the confidentiality

Note: I know It's not making sence with have a subtraction or Variance under the Label "Total" But I'll change that lable anyway

The main constrain here is that I'm trying to subtract the same column from itself based on a specific criteria..
For Example I tryied to calculate the Actuals in a deffrent way like
"Total" = if ["Fiscal year"] = 2023 then [Actuals] else (-1) * [Actuals] 
So the totals will be right (But Saddly Enugh this is not doablle beacuse It'll display the Actuals for 2024 as negative numbers)

Anyway I cant get to the desired output in the total Field Or any other custome field can be created, Specially with the fact that I'm trying to subtract one from the other not just getting the variance (I can use something like Manhattan distance for a positive variance) but this is not the case..

The Only Workaround solution I have here Is to seperate those values & Not using The Fiscal year as a column in this matrix table
With creating another six columns will be "Budget 2023", "Budget 2024", "Actuals 2023", "Actuals 2023", "Budget Variance", "Actuals Variance" then put them Alltogether in the matrix

 

BUT THIS WILL BE UGLY..
So If someone know some tricks that can help me or more Elegant/absolute solution to prevent me from doing UGLY things I'd Appreciate your help

 

Regard's,

Khaled S. Abd'El-Mwgoud

 

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