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I'm a Power BI newbie.
I have an excel sheet (ODBC) that I want to convert to Power BI, I already created the table but I have a formula in Excel that I don't know how to convert to Power BI, I use the INDEX and MATCH functions, but when I try to do the same in my table as a new column I don't get the INDEX function.
The formula I have looks for the first occurrence of month and year in DateColumn that has CURRENCY = PES and then retrieves the value of ExchangeTypeColumn to multiply it by AMOUNT, to get the BALANCE column
Here's the Excel formula:
IF(CURRENCY= "PES", AMOUNT, AMOUNT*INDEX(ColumnRateExchange,MATCH(1,(EXTRACT(DATE,5,2)=EXTRACT(ColumnDates,5,2))*(LEFT(DATE,4)=LEFT(ColumnDates,4))*(ColumnCurrency="PES"),0)))
And example data:
A. | Name | Date | Coin | Amount | T.C. | Balance |
3001 | Prov1 | 20231231 | USD | 11050.4 | 1 | 190373.15 |
| 3001 | Prov1 | 20231231 | USD | 31162.61 | 1 | 536860.59 |
| 3005 | Prov2 | 20231206 | PES | 9048 | 17.22771595 | 9048 |
| 3005 | Prov2 | 20231231 | PES | 44118 | 16.89351846 | 44118 |
How do I create the formula in a calculated column in Power Bi? I'm using Direct Query to get the data.
Thank you
To do it, you will need to take a few steps:
1. Calculated Column for Year:
Year = YEAR ( [Date] )
2. Calculated Column for Month:
Month = MONTH ( [Date] )
3. Calculated Column for FX Rate:
ExchangeRate =
VAR TargetYear = [Year]
VAR TargetMonth = [Month]
RETURN
CALCULATE (
FIRSTNONBLANK ( Table[ExchangeTypeColumn] , 0 ) ,
FILTER ( Table, YEAR ( Table[Date] ) = TargetYear &&
MONTH ( Table[Date] ) = TargetMonth &&
Table[CURRENCY] = "PES" ) , REMOVEFILTERS ( 'Table' )
)
4. Calculated Column for the Balance:
Balance = IF ( [CURRENCY] = "PES" , [AMOUNT] , [AMOUNT] * [ExchangeRate] )
Please adjust / adapt and hopefully it helps or at least guides you through the process.
All the best.
Theo
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Thanks for the reply, I assume that what was translated as CALCULATE is equivalent to the "CALCULATE" function, but I don't know what function can be RETURN.
How to put the function in English without having to translate it?
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