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ahjamil
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Dynamic Column Name

I have a table called "Cost" that has Items and Monthly Costs:           

ItemCost YearJan_Cost   Feb_Cost  Mar_Cost  Apr_Cost May_Cost
A20221010111214
B20221415151617
C20221719212019

Currently I have a measure (There are a lot of these measures and I need them for every Product):

SumCost = sumx(filter(cost, Cost[Cost YEAR]=2022), Cost[Jan_Cost])

I have to change the measure to dynamically pick up the column, so that I only change one value every month and all my measures start picking up the required column like:
Var ColName = "Jan_Cost"
SumCost = sumx(filter(cost, Cost[Cost YEAR]=2022), Cost[ColName])

Any help will be appreciated. 

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AlexisOlson
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Super User

It's almost always a better option in these sorts of situations to unpivot your month columns so that your data looks like this instead:

AlexisOlson_0-1659562474857.png

 

Then SumCost is just SUM ( Cost[Cost] ).

 

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