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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Divide / multiply by a fixed figure

My customer has a monthly figure 300000 and it needs to be divided by a coloumn which shows how many working days are in that month. Literally 300000 / working days in a month = Daily whatevers   ...
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parry2k
Super User
7 years ago

Anonymous i didn't understood your question. it should not be very hard. can you share sample data and what you want to achieve as the final result.

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Literally

 

300000 / Workingdays = 

 

WorkingDays = CALCULATE(sum('date'[IfWorkDay]))

 

I can't seem to find a way to do this as it wants to reference a field. 30000 doesn't exist in a field it's a static figure.

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    parry2k
    Super User
    7 years ago

    Anonymous assuming your workingdays formula is correct:

     

    you can do this:

     

    WorkingDays = 
VAR workingDays= CALCULATE(sum('date'[IfWorkDay]))
VAR fixedValue = 30000
RETURN
DIVIDE( fixedValue, WorkingDays)

     

     

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      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      For some reason this is multiplying not dividing?

       

      I've taken the variable: fixedvalue to 1 and it multiplies itself by the amount of working days. (Working days are showing correctly).

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        parry2k
        Super User
        7 years ago

        Anonymous can you share the output of your result, it is very hard to figure out what is going on, and if possible provide the sample data .