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Advocate VMoM Comparison - Values / Clients do not exist in Previous Month
Hi community, how are you?
I tried to discover a trick or some new function I do not know to use in order to treat this scenario. Please see attached screen.
It is a simple MoM comparison. Division is correct when I have Clients participating in both Months (previous and actual), but when I have new Clients in Actual Month and do not have it in previous one, I want to return in Evolution column 100% increase (1), but I simply don't know to perform this.
At this moment I just can think of Nested IF functions to resolve, but I cannot arrange this part inside DAX measure.
Scenario Picture 1:
Wrong
Scenario Picture 2:
Wrong
Actual measure blue parts I am assuming are correct. I doubt on red part (the one I want to force to be 100% of increase):
% Billing Pilot 2017 Variation BRL =
IF (
[Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] < 15
|| [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] < 15;
BLANK ();
IF (
ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] )
&& ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] );
BLANK ();
IF (
ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] )
&& [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] <> 0;
1;
IF (
[Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection]
= BLANK ()
&& [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] > 0;
1;
DIVIDE (
[Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month];
[Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection];
0
)
- 1
)
)
)
)
Hi Alex_SD, thank you so much for your reply and sorry to reply you just now.
I tried as sugested, but did not work! No problem because after some tests I did by myself I could see the gap and very happy I could found the solution with two possible DAX measures. Why two? One is using nested IFs (not the best way I think and I am not talking here about any performance increasing) and the other using a more implemented SWITCH function. Please see both measures below.
Nested IFs
% Billing Pilot 2017 Variation BRL = IF ( ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ) && ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] ), BLANK (), IF ( AND ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] = 0, [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] = 0 ), 0, IF ( NOT ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ) && [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] <> 0, 1, DIVIDE ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month], [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection], 0 ) - 1 ) ) )SWITCH:
% Billing Pilot 2017 Variation BRL = SWITCH ( TRUE (), AND ( ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ), ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] ) ), BLANK (), AND ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] = 0, [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] = 0 ), 0, AND ( NOT ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ), [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] <> 0 ), 1, DIVIDE ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month], [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection], 0 ) -1 )Thank you again community for your always great help and support.
Have a nice week! :)
4 Replies
Hi bajimmy1983,
Can you please provide some sample data to test? Without any data, it is hard to analysis and modify your formula.
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
- bajimmy1983
Hi Anonymous thanks for your help.
Yes, please see Link to Sample data
Thanks a lot again and best regards,
Hi,
Try breaking it down into sections
1) Get the previous months value for that client
Previous Month = CALCULATE ( SUM ( [Previous Value] ), FILTER ( ALL( 'Calendar' ), 'Calendar'[Month] = MAX ( 'Calendar'[Month] ) -1 ) )2) Now calculate from Actual
Actual Month = IF (ISBLANK( [Previous Month] ), 100%, DIVIDE(x,y) )
Hope that makes sense
- bajimmy1983
Hi Alex_SD, thank you so much for your reply and sorry to reply you just now.
I tried as sugested, but did not work! No problem because after some tests I did by myself I could see the gap and very happy I could found the solution with two possible DAX measures. Why two? One is using nested IFs (not the best way I think and I am not talking here about any performance increasing) and the other using a more implemented SWITCH function. Please see both measures below.
Nested IFs
% Billing Pilot 2017 Variation BRL = IF ( ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ) && ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] ), BLANK (), IF ( AND ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] = 0, [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] = 0 ), 0, IF ( NOT ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ) && [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] <> 0, 1, DIVIDE ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month], [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection], 0 ) - 1 ) ) )SWITCH:
% Billing Pilot 2017 Variation BRL = SWITCH ( TRUE (), AND ( ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ), ISBLANK ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] ) ), BLANK (), AND ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] = 0, [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] = 0 ), 0, AND ( NOT ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection] ), [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month] <> 0 ), 1, DIVIDE ( [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Selected Month], [Billing Pilot 2017 All Bases Last Month according to Month Selection], 0 ) -1 )Thank you again community for your always great help and support.
Have a nice week! :)
