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mpg06
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Rolling 12 Month total by customer

Need to get sum of quantity for previous 12 months by Customer. For instance: For Customer 1 July 2016 total should be from August 2015 - July 2016. This should be grouped by customer. If 12 months prior data does not exist, it can be 0 or blank.  Is it possible to calculate a column or measure? Thanks!

CustomerDateQuantityExpected Result
11/1/201510
12/1/201520
13/1/201540
14/1/201520
15/1/201510
16/1/201520
17/1/201510
18/1/201530
19/1/201540
110/1/201510
111/1/201510
112/1/2015123
11/1/2016123
12/1/2016122
13/1/2016119
14/1/2016219
15/1/2016422
16/1/2016222
17/1/2016122
21/1/201520
22/1/201510
23/1/201530
24/1/201540
25/1/201510
26/1/201510
27/1/201510
28/1/201510
29/1/201510
210/1/201510
211/1/201510
212/1/2015118
21/1/2016117
22/1/2016117
23/1/2016115
24/1/2016112
25/1/2016112
26/1/2016112
27/1/2016112
28/1/2016112
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mike_honey
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This is a common requirement that you would expect to be easily solved with a single function or formula.  But unfortunately DAX is saddled with several shockingly poor design decisions in this area, that have still not been corrected many years later.

 

For a glimpse of the full horror, try this article:

http://www.sqlbi.com/articles/rolling-12-months-average-in-dax/

 

Note it breezily assumes you start with a tidy Calendar table which in your case will need to extend 12 months prior to your earliest date. 

 

Personally I would go back to the Edit Queries layer and resolve it there - the tool behaves more rationally and predictably there.

I tried all of that, din't work. The closest I came to the solution was using code below from one of the forum discussions: It gives me trial_powerBI.JPG

Cumulative2 = VAR RowDate = Sheet1[Date]
VAR RowCust = Sheet1[Customer]
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( Sheet1[Quantity] ),
        FILTER (
            Sheet1,
            MONTH(RowDate) - Month(Sheet1[Date])<=12
                && YEAR ( RowDate) - YEAR ( Sheet1[Date] )<=1 && Sheet1[Customer] = RowCust
        ), VALUES(Sheet1[Customer])
    )

 

Your results look really odd, and nothing like the expected results you originally posted. For example your first row shows 35, where you expected 0.  

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