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DAX_Defence
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Running total, 2 categories, by date, into a line graph!

Good Afternoon Lovely Community, 

 

I'm after some help with a brainscratcher I've got going on. My data looks like the below;
(End date is a calculated column, if Removed is Yes, used Date removed else use TODAY())

 

NameDate AddedDate removedRemovedSpineEnd Date
Dave12/03/23nullNoA14/03/23
Jim12/03/23nullNoB14/03/23
Barbara12/03/2313/03/23YesA13/03/23
Bob13/03/23nullNoB14/03/23
Rita14/03/23nullNoB14/03/23

 

What I'd like is to create 3 running totals; one as a grand total and one for each spine, then plot all three on a line chart. 

 

So

12/03/23 would show A = 2, B = 1, Total = 3.

13/03/23 would show A = 1, B = 2, Total = 3. 

14/03/23 would show A = 1, B = 3, Total = 4. 

 

Line chart would then show this, with date as x axis. 

 

I'm completely stumped. Any help hugely appreciated. 

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Greg_Deckler
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@DAX_Defence See if this helps: Better Running Total - Microsoft Power BI Community

 



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Thanks so much for the quick reply. 

That works really well for the total, but I can't work out how to filter that to show each "Spine"? 

@DAX_Defence It's just an extra filter clause, something like:

Better RT = 
    VAR __Date = MAX('Table'[Date])
    VAR __Spine = MAX('Table'[Spine])
    VAR __Table = FILTER(ALLSELECTED('Table'),[Spine] = __Spine && [Date] <= __Date)
RETURN
    SUMX(__Table,[Value])


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