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(A) I have a relatively simple table with 2 column, one for the date and one containing daily market prices (of aluminium).
(B) I made a graph showing the daily prices over the time period covered by my data.
(C) Subsequently, I made a slicer for the date, making it possible to showing a more narrow time period. Besides, I made 2 measures, one showing the first date of the selected time period and one for the last date of my selected time period:
Firstdate = FIRSTDATE('Primary Aluminium'[Date])
Lastdate = LASTDATE('Primary Aluminium'[Date])
(D) I made 2 measures showing the related first and last price of the selected time period, using a visual level filter for the date.
Question> Now, what I want is to show on the graph is not the actual price per day, but the indexed price. Meaning that the starting price is 1 and the prices of the following days are shown relative to the price of the first day (e.g. instead of 2000 and 2200, it will show 1 and 1.1 for the first two days). The difficulty is that when I change the selected time period, the starting date (and therefore starting value changes), therefore the prices of the following days have to be divided by a different starting value. How to do this?
Solved! Go to Solution.
You may add a measure as shown below.
Measure =
DIVIDE (
SUM ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Close] ),
CALCULATE (
SUM ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Close] ),
FIRSTDATE ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Date] ) )
)
)
You may add a measure as shown below.
Measure =
DIVIDE (
SUM ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Close] ),
CALCULATE (
SUM ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Close] ),
FIRSTDATE ( ALLSELECTED ( 'Primary Aluminium'[Date] ) )
)
)
Many thanks, your reply solved my question!
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