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I am doing a report on something I thought would be so simple but it's not working.
I have to show Cases opened in the week, compared to last week (there are filters they will have by team or indiv or other).
So I need a fairly simple calc. The way I am calculating Total Number of Cases is by a measure:
Total Number of Cases =
CALCULATE(
Count(VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn])
)
There are quite a few Dax formulas that offer to return previous week I have found that will not let me use that measure in so wondering if it should be a calc column.
(I'm questioning everything)
1. Can anyone provide this simple formula for me and tell me what I am doing wrong? I want a simple line chart showing this week and last week.
2. Also, what is the formula for % week var over last week for a card? like change in how many cases created (%)
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @electrobrit
You may add a week of year column first in Query Editor. Then you may refer to below measure to get the table as requested.
LastWeekTotal =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year]
= MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] ) - 1
)
)WeekOverWeek =
VAR thisweek =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year] = MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] )
)
)
VAR lastweek =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year]
= MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] ) - 1
)
)
RETURN
DIVIDE ( thisweek - lastweek, lastweek )
Regards,
Cherie
Hi @electrobrit
You may add a week of year column first in Query Editor. Then you may refer to below measure to get the table as requested.
LastWeekTotal =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year]
= MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] ) - 1
)
)WeekOverWeek =
VAR thisweek =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year] = MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] )
)
)
VAR lastweek =
CALCULATE (
COUNT ( VW_Cases[CaseCreatedOn] ),
FILTER (
ALL ( VW_Cases ),
VW_Cases[Week of Year]
= MAX ( VW_Cases[Week of Year] ) - 1
)
)
RETURN
DIVIDE ( thisweek - lastweek, lastweek )
Regards,
Cherie
i like this for WTD but is there a way to see it by day as well? I would like to do a line chart showing daily this week compared to last week same day
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