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BenediktW
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2 years ago
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Visual calculation: running sum - sorting issue

Hello together,   I ve tried to utilize the new visual calculations to calculate running sums (cumulative percentage sales per customers as running totals).   Anyhow, I have the problem that the ...
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    BenediktW
    2 years ago

    lbendlin 

     

    Finally I found a solution without runningsum but with visual calc, which is working properly:

    FORMAT(SUMX( WINDOW(1, ABS, 0 ,REL, ALLSELECTED([Customer, ],  [Sales]), ORDERBY([Sales], DESC
    )), [Share total Sales]) , "Percent")
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jeroenterheerdt
Microsoft Employee
2 years ago

it's not a bug, it's how it was implemented right now. What do you expect? Do you want the visual matrix to _always_ be sorted on whatever is the visual?

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lbendlin
Super User
2 years ago
it's not a bug, it's how it was implemented

that means the implementation was buggy 🙂

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    jeroenterheerdt
    Microsoft Employee
    2 years ago

    no, that was intentional. It follows the model sort order, such a sorting columns. Just blindly following the sort order of the visual is not the only choice.