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Anonymous
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calculated field

 

Need help on calc field per company as buy and sell are 2 diff rows. They need to be net off to get the profit from the transaction done that day... hope somewat clear

 

 

 

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MFelix
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Can you please explain a little bit better what is the expected result?


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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

If you use a matrix visualization and place the Trans column in the columns you get the expected result:

 

This depends on how you want to setup everything but then making some measures you can have the results has you need.

 


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rsbin
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@Anonymous,

If I understand correctly, your first step in PowerQuery is to Pivot your "Trans" column.

This should create two new fields "Buy" and "Sell".

Then you can create Measures from these.

Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.

Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous 

Your description is not very clear. What are your needs ? What kind of effect do you want to achieve ? Can it be reflected in the form of pictures or data, if possible, please provide your pbix file (remove private information) .

 

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Community Support Team _ Ailsa Tao

Anonymous
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let me try again - am trying to get a summary say as pivot in excel of buy and sell trnsctions a day over few days. sheet 'b s indiv' is the base data

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApFc

Thnx in advance

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

If you use a matrix visualization and place the Trans column in the columns you get the expected result:

 

This depends on how you want to setup everything but then making some measures you can have the results has you need.

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



MFelix
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Super User

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Can you please explain a little bit better what is the expected result?


Regards

Miguel Félix


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



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