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PowerBI87
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Column to Calculate Year

Hi,

 

Can i please get help to write a function that will output the column in the right?

 

CompanyProductYearOutput
ABC CorpA2017First Year
GHY CorpA2018First Year
YYZ CorpB2020Second Year
ABC CorpA2018Second Year
ABC CorpA2019Third Year
YYZ CorpB2019Firs Year
HYU CorpA2020First Year
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az38
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @PowerBI87 

try to create column

Output = 
var r = RANKX(FILTER(ALL('Table'), 'Table'[Company] = EARLIER('Table'[Company]) && 'Table'[Product] = EARLIER('Table'[Product])),
'Table'[Year], , ASC)
var textRank = SWITCH(r,
1, "First",
2, "Second",
3, "Third",
BLANK())
RETURN
textRank & " Year"Q

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az38
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @PowerBI87 

try to create column

Output = 
var r = RANKX(FILTER(ALL('Table'), 'Table'[Company] = EARLIER('Table'[Company]) && 'Table'[Product] = EARLIER('Table'[Product])),
'Table'[Year], , ASC)
var textRank = SWITCH(r,
1, "First",
2, "Second",
3, "Third",
BLANK())
RETURN
textRank & " Year"Q

do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution
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collinq
Super User
Super User

Hi @PowerBI87 ,

 

To help out I would have to understand how the output is being determined.  It is obviously not the Year = Output so what are the variables you are trying to use?

 

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parry2k
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Super User

@PowerBI87 add a column with following expression

 

Output = 
VAR __minYear = CALCULATE ( MIN ( Table[Year] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Table, Table[Company] ) ) 
RETURN Table[Year] - __minYear ) + 1

 

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