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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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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
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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
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    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
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      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 .

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        Anonymous
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        7 years ago



         

        As you can see, I have adjusted the value to 1 and I've asked it to divide 1 by the amount of working days in the month. Instead it's multiplied it?