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Lamar249
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How to Snapshot totals from previous day?

How can I capture a snapshot of the Total Sales, Cost, Margin, and Margin % totals for a non-date-specific dataset, allowing me to compare the changes in total sales and cost for each of the five locations. 

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amitchandak
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@Lamar249 , Join snapshot with date table, assume Total Sales

Then have measure like

 

calculate([Total Sales], previousday('Date'[Date]))

 

Day Intelligence - Last day, last non continous day
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I need a visual like this created in Power Bi. The issue is none of this data is associated with a date. In esscence I need to sum up all of the data and save it in a seprate table in PBi as a single row for each facory location  and the current date as the key.
example
05/1/23 | Factory 1 | Sales | Cost | Margin
05/1/23 | Factory 2 | Sales | Cost | Margin  
05/1/23 | Factory 3 | Sales | Cost | Margin  
05/2/23 | Factory 1 | Sales | Cost | Margin  
05/2/23 | Factory 2 | Sales | Cost | Margin  
05/2/23 | Factory 3 | Sales | Cost | Margin 
and so on after each refresh...... 

I understand the date intelligence but how do I create a snapshot table of the data? I need a table that populates a new row every refresh so that I can compare the shift in values. 

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