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GFire
Helper I
Helper I

Tabular measure.

Hi,

 

I need help with this measure:

 

Create a measure that sums the total cumulative sales of all customers who had no sales last year.

For this table, customers A and C had no sales last year, so the measure should result in 1699.66 (1539.24 + 160.42).

 

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Thanks

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

You need to also filter out the rows where sales is 0

Cumulative Sales No Sales Last Year] =
VAR AllCustomers =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), REMOVEFILTERS () )
VAR PrevYear =
    YEAR ( TODAY () ) - 1
VAR CustomersWithSalesLastYear =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), 'Table'[Year] = PrevYear, 'Table'[Sales] > 0 )
VAR CustomersNoSalesLastYear =
    EXCEPT ( AllCustomers, CustomersWithSalesLastYear )
VAR Result =
    CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Table'[Sales] ), CustomersNoSalesLastYear )
RETURN
    Result

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johnt75
Super User
Super User

You can try

Cumulative Sales No Sales Last Year =
VAR AllCustomers =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), REMOVEFILTERS () )
VAR PrevYear =
    YEAR ( TODAY () ) - 1
VAR CustomersWithSalesLastYear =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), 'Table'[Year] = PrevYear )
VAR CustomersNoSalesLastYear =
    EXCEPT ( AllCustomers, CustomersWithSalesLastYear )
VAR Result =
    CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Table'[Sales] ), CustomersNoSalesLastYear )
RETURN
    Result

the measure should result in 1699.66 (1539.24 + 160.42).

 

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You need to also filter out the rows where sales is 0

Cumulative Sales No Sales Last Year] =
VAR AllCustomers =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), REMOVEFILTERS () )
VAR PrevYear =
    YEAR ( TODAY () ) - 1
VAR CustomersWithSalesLastYear =
    CALCULATETABLE ( DISTINCT ( 'Table'[Customer] ), 'Table'[Year] = PrevYear, 'Table'[Sales] > 0 )
VAR CustomersNoSalesLastYear =
    EXCEPT ( AllCustomers, CustomersWithSalesLastYear )
VAR Result =
    CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Table'[Sales] ), CustomersNoSalesLastYear )
RETURN
    Result
bhanu_gautam
Super User
Super User

@GFire Create a calculated column to check if a customer had sales last year:

DAX
HadSalesLastYear =
VAR CurrentYear = 'Table'[Year]
VAR Customer = 'Table'[Customer]
VAR SalesLastYear =
CALCULATE(
SUM('Table'[totalSales]),
FILTER(
'Table',
'Table'[Customer] = Customer &&
'Table'[Year] = CurrentYear - 1
)
)
RETURN
IF(SalesLastYear > 0, 1, 0)

 

Create a measure to sum the total sales for customers who had no sales last year:

DAX
TotalCumulativeSalesNoSalesLastYear =
CALCULATE(
SUM('Table'[totalSales]),
FILTER(
'Table',
'Table'[HadSalesLastYear] = 0
)
)




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the measure should result in 1699.66 (1539.24 + 160.42).

 

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