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powerbiusernew
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6 years ago
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Need help with substraction within a column

Hi all, 

 

I'm a new user here, require some help. I have a column with the following values. What I would like to do is to substract the total count of "Return" to the total count of "Loan". How do I go about doing that? I've been trying all ways and nothing seems to cut it.

 

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  • vik0810's avatar
    vik0810
    6 years ago

    A simple way would be following measure:

     

    Measure =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Return"
)
    - 
    CALCULATE ( 
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Loan" 
)

    If your table is filtered with the slicers, you may need to adjust the measure to manipulate filter context.

  • powerbiusernew's avatar
    powerbiusernew
    6 years ago
    vik0810 wrote:

    A simple way would be following measure:

     

    Measure =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Return"
)
    - 
    CALCULATE ( 
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Loan" 
)

    If your table is filtered with the slicers, you may need to adjust the measure to manipulate filter context.

    Awesome! I only needed to make minor adjustment (instead of SUM, I used Count) and it works. Thank you!

     

    Regards

    E

5 Replies

  • Grambi's avatar
    Grambi
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    I'm not sure I understand correctly. Is this what you're looking to do? 

     

    If you want to count the number of records of Type Loan and subtract the number of records of Type Return, you would create a column like this. A row with Loan gets a value of 1, a row with a Return gets a value of -1, everything else has 0 impact. 

     

     

    YourColumnName = if([operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Loan";1;if([operation_type_desc (groups)]= "Return";-1;0))

    You can now use this column to display the value of (number of Loans -/- number of Returns)

     

     

     

  • vik0810's avatar
    vik0810
    Resolver V
    6 years ago

    A simple way would be following measure:

     

    Measure =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Return"
)
    - 
    CALCULATE ( 
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Loan" 
)

    If your table is filtered with the slicers, you may need to adjust the measure to manipulate filter context.

    • powerbiusernew's avatar
      powerbiusernew
      Regular Visitor
      6 years ago
      vik0810 wrote:

      A simple way would be following measure:

       

      Measure =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Return"
)
    - 
      CALCULATE ( 
    SUM ( table[value] ), table[operation_type_desc (groups)] = "Loan" 
)

      If your table is filtered with the slicers, you may need to adjust the measure to manipulate filter context.

      Awesome! I only needed to make minor adjustment (instead of SUM, I used Count) and it works. Thank you!

       

      Regards

      E

      • Icey's avatar
        Icey
        Community Support
        6 years ago

        Hi powerbiusernew ,

        Glad to hear that. Please accept your solution above so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

         

        Best Regards,
        Icey

  • Icey's avatar
    Icey
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    Hi powerbiusernew ,

     

    Is this problem sloved?
     
    If it is sloved, please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.
     
    If not, please let me know.
     
    Best Regards
    Icey