Forum Discussion

WNA247365's avatar
WNA247365
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago
Solved

Running (cumulative) total without a numeric comparison

Hi I'm trying to create a running (cumulative) total  on a set of data in a matrix table.  My rows value isn't numeric so I can't use the formula that I see in all the examples I've been able to find...
Need Help
  • jahida's avatar
    jahida
    10 years ago

    There is definitely a (number of) easy way to do this, unless I'm missing something big. Here's one that I've tried on my machine:

     

    I created an index column in addition to the Delivered column. You can name it whatever you want (the default name is Index and I'm lazy). Here's the formula I'm using for running total:

     

    Running Total = CALCULATE(SUM(Query1[Total Samples]), FILTER(ALL(Query1), Query1[Index] <= EARLIER(Query1[Index])))

     

    And here's the table it creates:

     

     

    Another formula using the method I mentioned before (had to add the mod because 12 < 3, didn't clue into that before):

     

    Running Total2 = CALCULATE(SUM(Query1[Total Samples]), FILTER(ALL(Query1), 
	MOD(VALUE(RIGHT(Query1[Delivered], LEN(Query1[Delivered]) - SEARCH(" ", Query1[Delivered]))), 12) <=
	MOD(VALUE(RIGHT(EARLIER(Query1[Delivered]), LEN(EARLIER(Query1[Delivered])) - SEARCH(" ", EARLIER(Query1[Delivered])))), 12)))

    That gives exactly the same result as above (on my end at least), the formula is definitely more convoluted but it saves you a column. Hope one of those suits your purposes.