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Running Total - Count Groups with Missing Values

I'm trying to create a running total for the number of open data sets our department has published by month, so that we can see how many data sets each division has published through any given month....
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Anonymous,

    Firstly, create a date table in Power BI Desktop following the guide in this blog.

    Secondly, create relationship using date field of the date table and pub_date field of Open Data table.

    Thirdly, create measure using DAX below.

    Running OD = CALCULATE(COUNT('Open Data'[ds_name]),FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[DateKey]<=MAX('Date'[DateKey])))


    At last, drag date field of date table to X-Axis of your chart.


    Regards,
    Lydia

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Anonymous,

Firstly, create a date table in Power BI Desktop following the guide in this blog.

Secondly, create relationship using date field of the date table and pub_date field of Open Data table.

Thirdly, create measure using DAX below.

Running OD = CALCULATE(COUNT('Open Data'[ds_name]),FILTER(ALL('Date'),'Date'[DateKey]<=MAX('Date'[DateKey])))


At last, drag date field of date table to X-Axis of your chart.


Regards,
Lydia

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Anonymous

 

Your solution was so helpful! See below for the viz I was able to create. As you can see I've made a combination bar & line chart. I just have one more question:

 

How can I get the bars to stop appearing after today's date, while the line continues? I want to be able to see the goal into future months without seeing the actual progress made. Is there a way to apply the "Today()" function to the running total calculation, so that the calculation only shows the running total up to today's date, and doesn't project out into the future?