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Rolling 6 month average with non-consecutive dates

Hello,

 

I'm trying to build a 6-month rolling average of Sales $.

However, my sales data is aggregated by Week Starting Date, so the usual formulas don't seem to work. 

 

I currently have something that just adds up sales $ from the last 6 month numbers, but for every year. I understand why this doesn't work, but it's the closest I've come to a solution. I've also tried modifying the solution presented in this post with no luck https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-create-rolling-averages-over-non-consecutive-dates/m-p/1410175#M596833

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Current formula:

Sales AVG 6M =
VAR MonthsInRange = 6
VAR LastMonthRange =
MAX (Dates[YYYYM#])
VAR FirstMonthRange =
LastMonthRange - MonthsInRange + 1
VAR Period6M =
FILTER (
ALL ( Dates[YYYYM#] ),
Dates[YYYYM#] >= FirstMonthRange
&& Dates[YYYYM#] <= LastMonthRange
)
VAR Result =
IF (
COUNTROWS ( Period6M ) >= MonthsInRange,
CALCULATE (
AVERAGEX ( Period6M, [Sales $_sample] ),
REMOVEFILTERS ( 'Dates' )
)
)
RETURN
Result

 

 

Here is a sample of the data and the result comlumn I want:
I would like each week to be the average of the 6 months/26 weeks before it.

  • Anonymous do you have a date table and it marked as one?  Because if you do using DATESINPERIOD and referencing the date field in your date table should cover this.

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    littlemojopuppy
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    Anonymous do you have a date table and it marked as one?  Because if you do using DATESINPERIOD and referencing the date field in your date table should cover this.