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Mobile or dynamic quarters

HI, I need to create a quarter column that changes over month. It needs to group the months by three as mobile quarters. When a new month appears in the data, this one will be the last month of the ...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi  Anonymous  ,

    Here are the steps you can follow：

    1. Enter power query through transform data and select add column --- index column --- from 1 to generate the index

    2. Create calculated column.

    Quarter =
var _mod=MOD([Index],3)
return
SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    _mod=1,CALCULATE(MAX([Month]),FILTER('Table',[Index]=EARLIER([Index])+2)),
    _mod=2,CALCULATE(MAX([Month]),FILTER('Table',[Index]=EARLIER([Index])+1)),
    _mod=0,[Month])

    2. Result.

     

    You can downloaded PBIX file from here.

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

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

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
5 years ago

Hi  Anonymous  ,

Here are the steps you can follow：

1. Enter power query through transform data and select add column --- index column --- from 1 to generate the index

2. Create calculated column.

Quarter =
var _mod=MOD([Index],3)
return
SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    _mod=1,CALCULATE(MAX([Month]),FILTER('Table',[Index]=EARLIER([Index])+2)),
    _mod=2,CALCULATE(MAX([Month]),FILTER('Table',[Index]=EARLIER([Index])+1)),
    _mod=0,[Month])

2. Result.

 

You can downloaded PBIX file from here.

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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