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ElliotP
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10 years ago
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Cumulative Total

Hi,   I'm at an absolute loss as to how to calculate a cumulative total. I've tried googling, reading the forums, following the documentation, decomposing the calculation, trying it as both a measu...
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    Sean
    10 years ago

    ElliotP Sorry about the original post. It was from my phone and had typos :smileywink:

     

    Okay here is the formula for Running Total as a Calculated Column (prorerly formatted)

     

    Running Total COLUMN =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( 'All Web Site Data (2)'[UniquePageviews] ),
    ALL ( 'All Web Site Data (2)' ),
    'All Web Site Data (2)'[Date] <= EARLIER ( 'All Web Site Data (2)'[Date] )
)

     

    And as you can see it works! :smileyhappy:

     

     

    And here's the MEASURE formula

     

    Running Total MEASURE = 
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( 'All Web Site Data (2)'[UniquePageviews] ),
    FILTER (
        ALL ( 'All Web Site Data (2)' ),
        'All Web Site Data (2)'[Date] <= MAX ( 'All Web Site Data (2)'[Date] )
    )
)

     

    Which also works...

     

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO THIS FOR A COLUMN OF STRINGS

There's definitely a better way but I started by making a calculated column which converts my strings to numbers. In the example below, I was counting all parts that were not "good"

 

Calculated Column:

converter column = IF('table'[quality] == "Good", 0, 1)

Running Total =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ('table'[converter column] ),
    ALLEXCEPT ('table', table[converter column]),
    'table'[Tool Time] <= EARLIER ( 'table'[Tool Time] )
)