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4 years ago
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Capture the value of previous row in Power Query]

Hi, I was trying to work on a use case where I need to capture the previous row value.  So when the type is DVP the price column value should be replaced with the cost per share value. (14.47) ...
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    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    I'm afraid it can't be achieved in Power BI, as Power Query performs operations step by step, which is different from Excel.

     

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    Community Support Team _ kalyj

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4 years ago

Thank you so much for the quick update v-yanjiang-msft but now the price is wrong or I should say hasn't been updated with the new calculation. It should show 14.38 in the last 2 rows as the type is dvp so it should be replaced with cost_per_share of the last rvp i.e 14.38 as we did for the above 3 rows. 

 



Now you see basically it is creating dependency it is possible in excel (attached manual cal above) but I'm wondering if that is even possible in Power BI. 

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4 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

I'm afraid it can't be achieved in Power BI, as Power Query performs operations step by step, which is different from Excel.

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ kalyj

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Exactly. Anyways thank you so much for looking into this and spending valuable time on this. I will accept this as a solution. 

    Thanks
    Anany