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Anonymous
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How do you make a new column that equals another column's row below it?

How do I create a new column that will contain values of the other column's row below?

 

YearAmount for YearGoal For Year
FY23132432
FY22432521
FY21521674
FY20674432
FY19432none

 

The last column is what I am trying to make, "Goal For Year", which will take the prevous year's amount and makes it the next year's goal?

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

You could create a calculated column as follows.

Goal For Yea =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( 'Table'[Amount for Year] ),
    FILTER (
        'Table',
        VALUE ( RIGHT ( [Year], 2 ) )
            = VALUE ( RIGHT ( EARLIER ( 'Table'[Year] ), 2 ) ) + 1
    )
)

vstephenmsft_1-1673589044909.png

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

You could create a calculated column as follows.

Goal For Yea =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( 'Table'[Amount for Year] ),
    FILTER (
        'Table',
        VALUE ( RIGHT ( [Year], 2 ) )
            = VALUE ( RIGHT ( EARLIER ( 'Table'[Year] ), 2 ) ) + 1
    )
)

vstephenmsft_1-1673589044909.png

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Anonymous
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Hello there, 

 

Thank you for your response. What if I had data like this?

YearAmount for YearGoal For Year
10/1/2023132432
10/1/2022432521
10/1/2021521674
10/1/2020432none
11/1/2023201521
11/1/2022521684
11/1/2021684340
11/1/2020512none



Is there a way to have it display the previous row this way? Thank you for your help. 

Anonymous
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Hi, probably not the most efficient way because I'm relatively new with Power BI, but I would create two extra colunms: Fiscal Year and Previous Fiscal Year so in first row, for example, you would have 2023 / 2022 / FY23 / 132 / 432, in second 2022 / 2021 / FY22 / 432, etc. and the last column, goal for year, could be

 

= CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[Amount for Year]),FILTER(table_name,table_name[Fiscal Year]=EARLIER(table_name[Previous Fiscal Year]))

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