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Hello Power BI Community,
I need to calculate week over week variance from a source table in SQL DB . Please help me out with the below situation
there is a heirarchy which goes like this
Region > Trade > Manager > Supplier > Part
region | Trade | manager | supplier | part | spend |
R2 | T3 | M3 | S2 | P5 | 1,051,229 |
R2 | T3 | M1 | S2 | P7 | 1,669,068 |
R2 | T3 | M1 | S4 | P3 | 6,473,159 |
R2 | T1 | M2 | S1 | P1 | 3,540,942 |
R2 | T3 | M3 | S4 | P1 | 9,691,689 |
R2 | T2 | M3 | S3 | P2 | 3,726,536 |
R2 | T2 | M1 | S3 | P8 | 9,836,488 |
the heirarchical structure looks like this
What happens is each week the actuals are posted in same source table and i need to figure out a way to retain figures for the previous week only so that i can subtract from current week actuals and check which region > trade > manager > supplier >part has shown the high variance.
variance = current week actuals - previous week actuals
If suppose a part actuals has not been posted or there is no weekly history it should be added to the list under the same herirachy region > trade > manager > supplier >part.
i have connected to the SQL databse using import query method actuals are posted to the same table from which i am calculating the values .can this be done in power BI or this need something to be done at source level while importing the data or in SQL database( this is not an option as admin only grant generic READ only acess to the DB).
@DimaMD @amitchandak @olgad @DimaD Please help
@abhishekdas72 I have created an example, see the attached file and try to implement it in your report.
first measure (example)
1 -
spend PW =
VAR CurrentWeek = SELECTEDVALUE(dates[Weekmun])
VAR currentYear = SELECTEDVALUE(dates[Year])
VAR maxWeeknum = CALCULATE( MAX( 'dates'[Weekmun]), ALL( dates))
return
SUMX(
FILTER( ALL(dates),
IF( CurrentWeek = 1,
'dates'[Weekmun] = maxWeeknum && 'dates'[Year] = currentYear -1,
'dates'[Weekmun] = CurrentWeek - 1 && 'dates'[Year] = currentYear)),
[Total spend]
)
second measure (example)
Previous week =
CALCULATE( [Total spend],
FILTER( ALL(dates) , dates[Weekmun] = SELECTEDVALUE(dates[Weekmun]) - 1 && dates[Year] = SELECTEDVALUE(dates[Year])))
Yes they are present
@abhishekdas72 Provide more detailed sample data, or attach a pbix file, without confidential data
@abhishekdas72 Hi, Are dates present in your fact table?
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