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danisharoon
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4 years ago
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PowerBI PowerQuery M - Lag for each group

I have a query consisting of 3 columns, category, month, and volume. I would like to determine one month lag of volume for each category. How can this be achieved using PowerBI PowerQuery M?
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    Vijay_A_Verma
    4 years ago

    See the working here - Open a blank query - Home - Advanced Editor - Remove everything from there and paste the below code to test (later on when you use the query on your dataset, you will have to change the source appropriately. If you have columns other than these, then delete Changed type step and do a Changed type for complete table from UI again)

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcknMLKpUKCjKTylNLilW0lHySswDkuZmSrE6WGTdUpOApLEpdlnfxCKQrAl2WccCkKwRRNYptSy1KDE9NUUhpSgzLxths4kpLnmo3Tj1Q2w3w6kfYr+xpVJsLAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Category = _t, Month = _t, Volume = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Category", type text}, {"Month", type text}, {"Volume", Int64.Type}}),
        #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Volume (lag 1)", each try if #"Added Index"[Category]{[Index]-1}=[Category] then #"Added Index"[Volume]{[Index]-1} else null otherwise null),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each ([#"Volume (lag 1)"] <> null)),
        #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{"Volume", "Index"})
    in
        #"Removed Columns"