Cumulative Counts based on two date values

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I am working on a project to convert a manual excel report into a Power Bi dashbaord to create a line chart for three categories on items ( Urgent/ Minor/Major).

The raw data look like this:

Work Item Id	Severity	New Week
42632	Minor	1/15/2017
42633	Major	1/15/2017
42634	Major	1/15/2017
42669	Major	1/15/2017
42670	Major	1/15/2017
42746	Minor	1/22/2017
42748	Minor	1/22/2017
42772	Major	1/22/2017

I want to have an intermediate table like:

Week start date	Urgent New Count
1/15/2017	0
1/22/2017	0
1/29/2017	1
2/5/2017	1
2/12/2017	6
2/19/2017	6

Here, 'Urgent New Count' ( similarly, 'Minor' and 'Major' item counts should be calculated) is calculated such that : If the Work Item is 'Urgent' and the 'New Week' column in the firsttable is less than the date mentioned in the second table, count it. The column ('Week start date') refers to the first date of every week ( Sunday is the first day of the week). This column's value will keep increasing every week as new dates get added to both the tables.

In excel, to calculate the 'Urgent New Count': COUNTIFS(Severity,"=*Urgent*",NewWeek, CONCATENATE("<",$B5))

was used. Here, the 'Severity' criteria referred to the first 'Severity' column of first table and the the second argument does the comparision.

This would create a running count of work items where the current count may/may not be higher that the previous cell's count if there are any new items 

Any help is really appreciated. 

Thanks in advance.

[Icey · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Please pay attentation to ' '(Space) in your data. This is my PBIX file.

You can create your columns like this:

Urgent New Count =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Table 1' ) + 0,
    FILTER (
        'Table 1',
        'Table 1'[New Week] < EARLIER ( 'Table 2'[Date] )
            && ( 'Table 1'[Severity] ) = "Urgent"
    )
)

Major New Count =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Table 1' ) + 0,
    FILTER (
        'Table 1',
        'Table 1'[New Week] < EARLIER ( 'Table 2'[Date] )
            && ( 'Table 1'[Severity] ) = "Major"
    )
)

Minor New Count =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Table 1' ) + 0,
    FILTER (
        'Table 1',
        'Table 1'[New Week] < EARLIER ( 'Table 2'[Date] )
            && ( 'Table 1'[Severity] ) = "Minor"
    )
)

Best Regards,

Icey

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[Anonymous]

This is great. Thank you so much!