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Philwantling
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Next calendar quarter
Hi, Failry new to all this and trying to feel my way around something completely foregin. I have some sales forecasts that I want to show on a rolling quarter basis. For example, we're in Q1 ...
v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years agoHi Philwantling,
Please follow this blog to provide more detailed information, including dummy data and desired output.
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Yuliana Gu
Philwantling
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
OK, I'll see if I can add some context.
We estimate sales in future quarters. I want to be able to divide the sum of my future estimates by a win rate to achieve how much business i think we're going to win in that future period at our current win rates.
Data is provided similar to the below.:
| Closed | Closed Date | Estimated Closing Date | Estimated Value |
| TRUE | 01/01/2018 | 01/01/2018 | £100.00 |
| TRUE | 01/02/2018 | 01/02/2018 | £101.00 |
| TRUE | 01/03/2018 | 01/03/2018 | £102.00 |
| FALSE | 01/04/2018 | 01/04/2018 | £103.00 |
| FALSE | 01/05/2018 | 01/05/2018 | £104.00 |
| FALSE | 01/06/2018 | 01/06/2018 | £105.00 |
This table is linked to the FullDateAlternateKey field within a seperate date table which i created from this tutorial: http://radacad.com/create-a-date-dimension-in-power-bi-in-4-steps-step-1-calendar-columns
Estimated Closing Date *:1 FullDateAlternateKey