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BishwaR
Helper V
5 years ago
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Cumulative sum

HI I am calculation the cumulative sum of the product sold with the sold date but getting some unwanted result for some dates with multiple sells.   Sold Date    Item     No Of Product sold        ...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    5 years ago

    BishwaR based on your data, it is not going to work, you need to break the ties between the dates. You can add index column in PQ and then instead of date use that column for cumulative sum.

     

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parry2k
Super User
5 years ago

BishwaR based on your data, it is not going to work, you need to break the ties between the dates. You can add index column in PQ and then instead of date use that column for cumulative sum.

 

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  • BishwaR's avatar
    BishwaR
    Helper V
    5 years ago

    Could you please let me know how to generate a series in power query ?

    is it list.generate something like that in the custom column ? I want a dynamic list