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How do I create a new column that will contain values of the other column's row below?
Year | Amount for Year | Goal For Year |
FY23 | 132 | 432 |
FY22 | 432 | 521 |
FY21 | 521 | 674 |
FY20 | 674 | 432 |
FY19 | 432 | none |
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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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
)
)
Best Regards,
Stephen Tao
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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
)
)
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.
Hello there,
Thank you for your response. What if I had data like this?
Year | Amount for Year | Goal For Year |
10/1/2023 | 132 | 432 |
10/1/2022 | 432 | 521 |
10/1/2021 | 521 | 674 |
10/1/2020 | 432 | none |
11/1/2023 | 201 | 521 |
11/1/2022 | 521 | 684 |
11/1/2021 | 684 | 340 |
11/1/2020 | 512 | none |
Is there a way to have it display the previous row this way? Thank you for your help.
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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