Get certified for free when you join Fabric Data Days 2026 and dive into Fabric, Power BI, SQL, AI, and other essential data skills.
Join nowTry your skills in the Power BI Dataviz World Championship! Round one ends June 26. Join now
Hey guys.
I have a little challenge.
I have a table like the one below with customers and their orders.
| Customer | Order ID | Amount | Date |
| 1 | 23 | 5000 | 01/09/2022 |
| 1 | 24 | 6000 | 02/09/2022 |
| 1 | 25 | 7000 | 03/09/2022 |
| 1 | 26 | 3000 | 04/09/2022 |
| 2 | 27 | 3900 | 01/09/2022 |
| 2 | 28 | 4000 | 02/09/2022 |
| 2 | 29 | 2900 | 03/09/2022 |
| 2 | 30 | 1000 | 04/09/2022 |
I would like to create two additional columns that will tell me the order id of the customers last purchase and then the sum of the current purchase and the previous one as well. So the output should be something like the table below
| Customer | Order ID | Amount | Date | Previous ID | Plus Previous |
| 1 | 23 | 5000 | 01/09/2022 | ||
| 1 | 24 | 6000 | 02/09/2022 | 23 | 11000 |
| 1 | 25 | 7000 | 03/09/2022 | 24 | 13000 |
| 1 | 26 | 3000 | 04/09/2022 | 25 | 10000 |
| 2 | 27 | 3900 | 01/09/2022 | ||
| 2 | 28 | 4000 | 02/09/2022 | 27 | 7900 |
| 2 | 29 | 2900 | 03/09/2022 | 28 | 6900 |
| 2 | 30 | 1000 | 04/09/2022 | 29 | 3900 |
I can do this DAX but i want to be able to do it in Power Query because there are some other steps i need to do that depend on this one.
I would really appreciate any help. Thanks
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @HeirsPowerBi
For Previous ID column you can use merge queries function
1. Add 2 New Columns with Index Starting from 0 and 1
2. Go to Home Tab > click on Merge Queries>Index left join with Index.1 > Sort Rows
For Plus Previous you can add a custom column .
List.Sum(List.FirstN(#"Renamed Columns"[Amount],[Index.1]))
Hope that helps.
Edited: I Noticed @Anonymous Already replied. Only refer if that solution does not work
Create a new column like
new column=
Var _last = sumx(filter(Table, Table[Customer] =earlier([Customer]) && Table[Order ID] = earlier( Table[Order ID] )-1 ) , Table[Amount])
return
if(isblank(_last), blank(), Table[Amount]+_last)
Hi @HeirsPowerBi
For Previous ID column you can use merge queries function
1. Add 2 New Columns with Index Starting from 0 and 1
2. Go to Home Tab > click on Merge Queries>Index left join with Index.1 > Sort Rows
For Plus Previous you can add a custom column .
List.Sum(List.FirstN(#"Renamed Columns"[Amount],[Index.1]))
Hope that helps.
Okay so this works perfectly for the previous order ID but the Solution for plus previous is not working exactly as i would have hoped but my way around it was to get the previous amount in one column and then create another column that adds the current one to the previous one.
Thank You so much
Don't miss out on Data Days, June 15 through August 7. Learn Fabric, Power BI, SQL, AI and more.
Check out the May 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 22 | |
| 22 | |
| 21 | |
| 20 | |
| 12 |
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 58 | |
| 55 | |
| 42 | |
| 36 | |
| 35 |