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Hi everyone,
I have a table (named "table") with a large number of columns, but the related ones has the next structure:
id date import
1 201809 70
2 201809 88
1 201810 45
3 201811 36
1 201811 77
And i want to add a Calculated Column with the import of the previuos month. So the evolution for ID 1 will be:
201809 201810 201811
1 NA 70 45
Do you have any idea? Of course i know i could create a measure like:
CALCULATE(SUM(import);PREVIOUSMONTH(table[date]))
But after this calculate, i want to create groups for numeric ranges about the differences between the import and the previous month import, and count how many IDs are in each group. I think i cant do this with a measure, so i want to have the previous on a calculated column.
I hope you can understand me. Thanks!
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Hi @Anonymous,
By my tests, the formula from Chiara should be helpful.
You also could create an index calculated column and a measure to achieve that.
Index =
RANKX (
FILTER (
'Table2',
EARLIER ( 'Table2'[id] ) = 'Table2'[id]
),
[date],
,
ASC
)
Measure =
VAR a =
CALCULATE (
MAX ( Table2[import] ),
FILTER (
ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table2', Table2[id] ),
'Table2'[Index]
= MAX ( 'Table2'[Index] ) - 1
)
)
RETURN
IF ( a = BLANK (), "Na", a )
Best Regards,
Cherry
Hi @Anonymous,
By my tests, the formula from Chiara should be helpful.
You also could create an index calculated column and a measure to achieve that.
Index =
RANKX (
FILTER (
'Table2',
EARLIER ( 'Table2'[id] ) = 'Table2'[id]
),
[date],
,
ASC
)
Measure =
VAR a =
CALCULATE (
MAX ( Table2[import] ),
FILTER (
ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table2', Table2[id] ),
'Table2'[Index]
= MAX ( 'Table2'[Index] ) - 1
)
)
RETURN
IF ( a = BLANK (), "Na", a )
Best Regards,
Cherry
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