open revenue spread over future days

[ben_w]

I'm trying to make a workload/financial forecast based on the openstanding revenue in combination with the # of days of work.

What i have:

Open revenue / project

# open work days / project

Open revenue / # open work days = € / day

This € / day i want to visualize in a column chart with time on the x axis.

In SQL i would make a function to return the 'open work days' in a date format (loop with dateadd(now,'# open work days',dd) and do a cross join to assign my '€ / day' value to all these 'open work days' per project, after which front-end wise the values of different projects will be summed.

In Powerbi i'm not sure this is an approach that can be used. Is there a formula based combination which would arrive in assigning the € / day value to a

dateadd(TODAY();'# open work days counter';DAY) as long as '# open work days counter' < '# open work days'.

[Eric_Zhang]

@ben_w

Your requirement is not quite clear for me. Would you mind posting some sample data and expected output? Kindly post sample data in plain text other than snapshot if possible.

[ben_w]

Of course,

I'll keep it simple with 1 project only,

Open revenue: 100000 

# open work days: 5

Open revenue / # open work days = 20000 € / day

These 3 measures I already have today in PowerBI.

They tell the company that for this project we have only 5 days remaining on which 20k can be spent every day. This 20k we have a formula for to +- recalculate it to Hours, in order to allocate people to the project, but this is out of the scope of the question.

Now the visualisation of this 100k, seeing as we are today the 23/05, would have to be like this:

23/05: 20k

24/05: 20k

25/05: 20k

26/05: 20k

27/05: 20k

Imagine the above in a table element, but of course if we got the measure set right, i would not use a table element but a column/bar chart with one axis date, second axis €.

[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

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@ben_w wrote:

Of course,

I'll keep it simple with 1 project only,

Open revenue: 100000 

# open work days: 5

Open revenue / # open work days = 20000 € / day

These 3 measures I already have today in PowerBI.

They tell the company that for this project we have only 5 days remaining on which 20k can be spent every day. This 20k we have a formula for to +- recalculate it to Hours, in order to allocate people to the project, but this is out of the scope of the question.

Now the visualisation of this 100k, seeing as we are today the 23/05, would have to be like this:

23/05: 20k

24/05: 20k

25/05: 20k

26/05: 20k

27/05: 20k

Imagine the above in a table element, but of course if we got the measure set right, i would not use a table element but a column/bar chart with one axis date, second axis €.

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@ben_w

You can use the CROSSJOIN in DAX as well, just need a auxiliary number table.

Table 2 =
ADDCOLUMNS (
    FILTER (
        CROSSJOIN ( 'Table', NumTable ),
        'Table'[# open work days] >= NumTable[no]
    ),
    "€ / day", 'Table'[Open revenue] / 'Table'[# open work days]
)

[ben_w]

Exactly what i was looking for, thanks!

For people reading this and wondering, just add

        "Dateforgraph"; TODAY()+(NumTable[no]-1)

to the new table code from Eric and you'll have everything you need to make the graph.