I am currently trying to pull last month's total for a certain line item that has the following criteria:
-Project
-Cost Code
-Amount
Example of the columns would be:
Month
Project
Cost Code
Amount
9/1/2022
3704
250
$10,700
9/1/2022
3704
280
$7,800
10/1/2022
3704
250
$11,200
I am doing this in PowerBI so it is using DAX so it definitely makes it more intricate, at least for my level it surely does. Will truly appreciate any help or steps to solving how to get last month's amount by project & cost.
I know I need to either add a measure or column, just unsure of what the formula code would look like for that.
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I am trying to create a count measure filtered by 30, 60 and 90 days.
If a directorate, such as NSD is selected, I must get a count for how many dates are in each column heading such as Design In Review.
The dates in the table are based off of measure calculations as well. I'm unsure whether that makes a real difference.
So, strange one to explain...
I have a table with the start dates of each person in project (each start day is the first Monday of the week)
I want to know how many people were in the project on any given week.
If I select two weeks in a slicer, for example
Week1
Week3
And there were 10 people in week 1 and 30 in week 3 the total should be 40.
How do I build a measure to do this.
Essentially I'm asking it to count the number of rows(project members) where the start date is >= each selected date and sum each individual result.
I hope this has made sense unable to share much due to work red tape
Thanks
Lloyd
I would do this in the following way:
Create a bin for the work week
Create a measure to count the bin from step 1.
I have an explore like the following -
Timestamp Rate Count
July 1 $2.00 15
July 2 $2.00 12
July 3 $3.00 20
July 4 $3.00 25
July 5 $2.00 10
I want to get the below results -
Rate Number of days Count
$2.00 3 37
$3.00 2 45
How can I calculate the Number of days column in the the table calculation? I don't want the timestamp to be included in the final table.
First of all— is rate a dimension? If so, and you have LookML access, you could create a "Count Days" measure that's just a simple count, and then return Rate, Count Days, and Count. That would be really simple.
If you can't do that, this hard to do with just a table calculation, since what you're asking for is to change the grouping of the data. Generally, that's something that's only possible in SQL or LookML, where you can actually alter the grouping and aggregation of the data.
With Table Calculations, you can make operations on the data that's been returned by the query, but you can't change the grouping or aggregation of it— So the issue becomes that it's quite difficult to take 3 rows and then use a table calculation to represent those as 1 row.
I'd recommend taking this to the LookML or SQL if you have developer access or can ask someone who does. If you can't do that, then I'd suggest you look at this thread: https://discourse.looker.com/t/creating-a-window-function-inside-a-table-calculation-custom-measure/16973 which explains how to do these kinds of functions in table calculations. It's a bit complex, though.
Once you've done the calculation, you'd want to use the Hide No's from Visualization feature to remove the rows you aren't interested in.
I'm trying to figure out how to spread the estimated hours for a project over the length of that project with a known end date.
Example, I have Project 001, it is 600 hours, and it is a six-month project that is due to release June 2020. Each of these values (project identifier, hours, length, and release date) are separate columns in a database.
In this example, Project 001 would add 100 hours to each month from January to June. If Project 002 had 300 hours with the same length and release date, now each month would have 150 hours.
The end goal is to get a forecast of how many hours we expect in each month for all the projects we have to determine the overall capacity demands for the month. So we'd have something like a bar chart that shows the total hours demand for each month based on the projects that will impact that month. Or we'd have a bar chart that shows the remaining capacity (fixed monthly capacity minus monthly estimated hours).
I haven't been able to determine how to generate something that will divide the hours backward over the length of the project based on the project end date. I'm still pretty new to Power BI, so I could do with some guidance on this one. I'm well versed in Excel and VBA, I understand the basics of creating measures and some of the ways Power BI "formulas" are written. Any help is much appreciated.
I made a small test table:
I added the column: HoursPerDay
HoursPerDay = Hours[Hours]/ DATEDIFF(Hours[StartDate];Hours[EndDate];DAY)
Next I made a calendar table:
Calendar = CALENDAR(MIN(Hours[StartDate]);MAX(Hours[EndDate]))
I added the measure HoursPerProject to this table:
HoursPerProject = CALCULATE(SUM(Hours[HoursPerDay]);FILTER(Hours;Hours[StartDate] <= VALUES('Calendar'[Date]) && Hours[EndDate] >= VALUES('Calendar'[Date])))
This is the important bit because it checks if it should include the hours for a prject on that day.
When putting this in a stacked column graph, you need to place the HoursPerProject in the value and the Date of calendar on the Axis. Hope this helps you.
So I have made a spreedsheet to help me keep track of my power and gas bill - well the total cost of the bill anyway. This way as the months go on I am able to see what the average Power and Gas bill have been.
I am using only sheet1 and prefer to do it this way, so when I show my partner they don't need to flick through pages of numbers. It's right in front of them with Power & Gas in the next row - take a look at the image below.
So as you can see from the above (not including the J3 row) I have everything laid out in the layout I would like. This way when I get a bill emailed to me I add it, and then I can pay X amount and record that.
I know how to do =sum() and =average() but how can I limit it to only the power rows automatically.
The query should be looking up G column for power or gas and then whichever one it is get the H column next to it and then work out the cost per month by looking at the date the bill came out.
Power bill is every month so that easy, gas is every 3 months.
I know in open office they have the =if() command and I made it return TRUE when it was power but it does not seem that i can use just that function? I am wondering if maybe a TUT or example that outlines how we get the result like this.
Another example would be replace gas and power with tech toys i.e batteries over a year what was the real cost per monthly.
Ok after thinking outside the square - the answer I am using is this.
=AVERAGEIF(G3:G100;"POWER";H3:H100)/COUNTIF(G3:G100;"POWER")
I divided power by it's count as we get it every month
=AVERAGEIF(G3:G100;"GAS";H3:H100)/COUNTIF(G3:G100;"GAS")/3
I divided gas by 3 as we get it every 3rd month