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Hi everyone,
I have been working on Power BI for a few months and now reached a point where I really need help. So I hope you can and I already thank you for it.
Here is the situation :
My hierarchy is as follow :
Raw budget
| Project | Phase | Budget |
| A | 1 | x |
| A | 2 | x |
| A | 3 | x |
| A | 4 | x |
Detailed budget
| Project | Phase | Product | Task | Time Budget |
| A | 1 | a | uniqueID | x |
| A | 1 | a | uniqueID | x |
| A | 1 | b | uniqueID | x |
| A | 1 | b | uniqueID | x |
| A | 2 | a | uniqueID | x |
| A | 2 | a | uniqueID | x |
| B | 1 | v | uniqueID | x |
| B | 1 | v | uniqueID | x |
Time tally table
| Project | Phase | Product | Task | Time Tally | Date |
| A | 1 | a | uniqueID | x | ddmmyyy |
| A | 1 | a | uniqueID | x | ddmmyyy |
| A | 1 | a | uniqueID | x | ddmmyyy |
| A | 1 | b | uniqueID | x | ddmmyyy |
First I want to calculate the remaining time
I tried this :
Measure = VAR Timeleft = SUM ( DetailedBudget [Time] ) - SUM ( Timetally [time] )
RETURN
IF ( Timeleft > 0 ; Timeleft )
And its working when shown again the Task dimension but its wrong when I show it for a project (The total time spent is greater than the budget so this measure will show 0 time left when used with project dimension.
I kind of made it work with calculated columns but then the time left to do is not updating depending on the date slicer.
Then, I need to check for a given Phase, if there is no Detailed time budget then use the Raw Budget.
the result would be something like that:
| Projet | Phase | Raw Budget | Detailed Budget | Used Budget | Time spent | Time left |
| A | 1 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 14 |
| A | 2 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 13 |
| A | 3 | 30 | 30 | 3 | 27 | |
| A | 4 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 4 | 31 |
Thank you very much for reading through this and please ask me if you need extra details. I'm so overwhelmed by this that just explaining it is difficult.
Cheers!
Solved! Go to Solution.
So I managed to solve it using SUMX and CALCULATE thanks to MattAllington
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DAX-SUMX-REFERENCE-ANOTHER-TABLE/td-p/217040
Cheers.
So I managed to solve it using SUMX and CALCULATE thanks to MattAllington
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DAX-SUMX-REFERENCE-ANOTHER-TABLE/td-p/217040
Cheers.
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