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Songbird
8 years agoRegular Visitor
Compare values between rows of custom data
Hi I'm new to Power BI. Why does #"Added Index"{[Index]-12}[Total] work only if [Total] is not an added/custom column? How do I get this to work on custom culumns? I'm trying to compare histori...
Ashish_Mathur
8 years agoSuper User
Hi,
Please explain the business question. Also, what result are you expecting?
Songbird
8 years agoRegular Visitor
In the end I want a visuaization of the current amounts (posts on specific webpages) and the total from the same month in the previous year. That way we can easily compare to how well we did in the previous year. I can't figure out how to get the "Quick Measure" for YoY to work.
My data is the first 4 columns, I calculate the total, then I would like to just shift the total down 12 lines. I don't know if this is the appropreate method. It seems like it should be simple.
| Date | Page1 | Page2 | Page3 | Total | YoY Total |
| 10/1/2015 | 127 | 24 | 121 | 272 | |
| 11/1/2015 | 15 | 9 | 126 | 150 | |
| 12/1/2015 | 28 | 20 | 125 | 173 | |
| 1/1/2016 | 2 | 13 | 101 | 116 | |
| 2/1/2016 | 5 | 1 | 109 | 115 | |
| 3/1/2016 | 5 | 14 | 144 | 163 | |
| 4/1/2016 | 17 | 10 | 106 | 133 | |
| 5/1/2016 | 5 | 11 | 113 | 129 | |
| 6/1/2016 | 12 | 7 | 121 | 140 | |
| 7/1/2016 | 4 | 5 | 124 | 133 | |
| 8/1/2016 | 3 | 8 | 127 | 138 | |
| 9/1/2016 | 3 | 13 | 105 | 121 | |
| 10/1/2016 | 21 | 30 | 89 | 140 | 272 |
| 11/1/2016 | 0 | 12 | 79 | 91 | 150 |
| 12/1/2016 | 1 | 12 | 86 | 99 | 173 |
| 1/1/2017 | 2 | 24 | 86 | 112 | 116 |
| 2/1/2017 | 2 | 13 | 94 | 109 | 115 |
| 3/1/2017 | 32 | 9 | 120 | 161 | 163 |
| 4/1/2017 | 36 | 15 | 124 | 175 | 133 |
| 5/1/2017 | 67 | 21 | 73 | 161 | 129 |
| 6/1/2017 | 58 | 34 | 167 | 259 | 140 |
| 7/1/2017 | 41 | 12 | 85 | 138 | 133 |
| 8/1/2017 | 13 | 41 | 151 | 205 | 138 |
| 9/1/2017 | 23 | 18 | 91 | 132 | 121 |
| 10/1/2017 | 11 | 12 | 117 | 140 | 140 |
| 11/1/2017 | 5 | 13 | 104 | 122 | 91 |
| 12/1/2017 | 8 | 8 | 93 | 109 | 99 |
| 1/1/2018 | 13 | 10 | 118 | 141 | 112 |
| 2/1/2018 | 15 | 4 | 114 | 133 | 109 |
| 3/1/2018 | 18 | 15 | 121 | 154 | 161 |
- Ashish_Mathur8 years agoSuper User