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Anonymous
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how to calculate cumulative decrease use DAX

Hi, experts, I want to get the gap of the relevant value, for example, the "cal" column in the picture, do you have any solutions?

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Mahesh0016
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VAR PreviousRow = CALCULATE( [Orders], OFFSET( -1, ALLSELECTED('Product'[yearmonth]), ORDERBY('Product'[yearmonth], ASC) ) )
RETURN [# Orders] - PreviousRow


Hello @Anonymous ,
I hope this helpful for you if not so can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.

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Mahesh0016
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VAR PreviousRow = CALCULATE( [Orders], OFFSET( -1, ALLSELECTED('Product'[yearmonth]), ORDERBY('Product'[yearmonth], ASC) ) )
RETURN [# Orders] - PreviousRow


Hello @Anonymous ,
I hope this helpful for you if not so can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.

Hi,

What is the [Order] in the above function?

Hello @sivasrao ,
[Order] is Measure.

Hi, 

thank you for your quick reply.

What is in [Order] measure?

Can you please elaborate on the total function? 

 

Anonymous
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Thanks, I am not quiet understand [# Orders] of "RETURN [# Orders] " , can you tell me what it stands for? Thanks.

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