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Hi Team,
Need help in solving the below problem.
We need to take the running sum of future 3 month data based on the month.
| Date | Data | |
| 1/1/2019 | 10 | |
| 1/5/2019 | 20 | |
| 1/7/2019 | 30 | |
| 2/2/2019 | 5 | |
| 2/15/2019 | 45 | |
| 2/25/2019 | 47 | |
| 3/1/2019 | 50 | |
| 3/6/2019 | 20 | |
| 3/27/2019 | 45 | |
| 4/4/2019 | 65 | |
| 4/25/2019 | 35 | |
| 4/29/2019 | 25 | |
| 5/1/2019 | 65 | |
| 5/10/2019 | 40 | |
| 6/15/2019 | 54 | |
| 7/25/2019 | 25 | |
| 8/24/2019 | 36 | |
| output | Data | Comment |
| Jan-19 | 337 | Running sum of Feb,march ,April |
| Feb-19 | 345 | running sum of march,april,may |
| Mar-19 | 284 | Running sum of April ,may ,june |
| Apr-19 | 184 | Running sum of May ,June, July
|
Thanks,
Raj
Solved! Go to Solution.
You will need a Calendar table if you dont have one already. Make sure it has a Year, MonthName, MonthNumber ( to sort month name) column.
Related that to yoru main table on Date (1:M) and make sure to put columns from the Calendar tables as filters ( rows, columns, ect).
Then you can write these two measures:
Total of Data = SUM ( Table2[Data] )
Total of Next 3 Months =
CALCULATE(
[Total of Data],
DATESBETWEEN(
DimCalendar[Date],
LASTDATE(DimCalendar[Date]),
DATEADD(
LASTDATE(DimCalendar[Date]),3,MONTH)
)
)And here's the final table:
You will need a Calendar table if you dont have one already. Make sure it has a Year, MonthName, MonthNumber ( to sort month name) column.
Related that to yoru main table on Date (1:M) and make sure to put columns from the Calendar tables as filters ( rows, columns, ect).
Then you can write these two measures:
Total of Data = SUM ( Table2[Data] )
Total of Next 3 Months =
CALCULATE(
[Total of Data],
DATESBETWEEN(
DimCalendar[Date],
LASTDATE(DimCalendar[Date]),
DATEADD(
LASTDATE(DimCalendar[Date]),3,MONTH)
)
)And here's the final table:
Hi I used the same data and formula from above. Here is what I come up with:
I don't understand why Dec-19 has 617 as the next 3 months total. Can you please help? Thank you!
Hi Nick,,
Can you send me the pbix file.
Thanks,
Raj
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