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zahlenschubser's avatar
1 year ago
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calculation question

I have a rather large table with inventory movements, with changing purchase prices over time, and I need to calculate the difference between the then-current price and the last previous one.   I t...
  • johnt75's avatar
    1 year ago

    In the model view select the table and set the key column to Id. Then you can create a calculated column like

    Diff Amount = 
    VAR CurrentAmount = X_Lagerwerte[EK_LC]
    VAR PrevAmount = SELECTCOLUMNS( 
        OFFSET( -1, ALLEXCEPT( X_Lagerwerte, X_Lagerwerte[Diff Amount] ),
            ORDERBY( X_Lagerwerte[Datum], ASC, X_Lagerwerte[Id], ASC ),
            PARTITIONBY( X_Lagerwerte[Artikel_id], X_Lagerwerte[Artikel_nummer] )
        ),
        X_Lagerwerte[EK_LC]
    )
    VAR Result = IF( ISBLANK( PrevAmount ), 0, CurrentAmount - PrevAmount )
    RETURN Result 
  • johnt75's avatar
    johnt75
    1 year ago

    To avoid the circular dependency error in your % calculation you will need to add that column to the ALLEXCEPT in the diff amount column.

    The code I wrote works using the OFFSET function. That sorts the table specified by date and ID ( the ID is in case there are multiple entries for one date ) and partitions it by the article ID and number. It then chooses the previous row relative to the current row, and pulls the amount from that previous row.

    The reason that you need to include any calculated columns in the ALLEXCEPT is that otherwise OFFSET would work on the entire table, which would include those calculated columns.

    I hope this explains how it works.