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Hi,
I try to create a new column in query editor however, the earlier function generates an error.
Thanks for help!arlier function doesn't work.
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous - There's a lot going wrong here. First, EARLIER is DAX and thus does not work in Query Editor because Query Editor uses M code, not DAX. Two, that screen shot is not the Query Editor. Third, it looks like you are creating a measure and not a calculated column and that's likely why you don't have an earlier context for EARLIER.
@Anonymous - There's a lot going wrong here. First, EARLIER is DAX and thus does not work in Query Editor because Query Editor uses M code, not DAX. Two, that screen shot is not the Query Editor. Third, it looks like you are creating a measure and not a calculated column and that's likely why you don't have an earlier context for EARLIER.
Thanks! Indeed I created the DAX formula in Power BI data view, not in query editor. I thought i have created a new column, but you are right, it seems to be a measure formula. Now the earlier function works when I create it under a new column.
@Anonymous , hope you are creating a column, not a measure.
Try like this
new column = , sumx(filter(Table,Table[ID] =earlier(Table[ID])) ,Table[value])
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