When And How To Use The EARLIER Function In Power BI - DAX Concepts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- In this particular tutorial I dive into one of the more advanced functions in the entire DAX language. EARLIER is a relatively difficult function to grasp. The reason for this is because it requires you to have a deep understanding of the concept of context.
Sometimes within one DAX formula you can actually have multiple contexts working away to gather what's required to find the ultimate calculated result.
Essentially EARLIER allows you to jump from one particular context to another, within a formula, to retrieve a certain value that's required for your calculation.
The best way to explain it is certainly through this video tutorial which is a lengthy one to really dive into the nuances of this particular function.
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5:08 - calculating cumulative product sales
5:49 - calculating if product index is less than or equal to 8
8:40 - creating cumulative total based on ranking
9:32 - using variables to calculate cumulative product sales
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Awesome Tutorial! I've struggled for a few weeks to understand EARLIER until I came across your tutorial today and it was a Eureka moment. Thanks very much - I finally understand it!
This is great! I was just thinking about EARLIER-function and was also wondering about the VARIABLE-fuzz, but this video cleared the picture. Thank you Sam! I now know, that I can initiate calculation with a variable; isolate calculation with variables in it and carry it out seamlessly without jumpung in and out of the formula context.
WONDERFUL! I have to use it to apply a Pitagoras in order to calculate distance between two GPS points.
Excellent tutorial Sam! Thank you.
Thank you Sam! Great explanation!
Hello,
I appreciate the quality of your videos and commend you for the clarity of your explanations. I'm wondering if it's possible to apply the "Earlier" function in a DAX measure for calculating the cumulative total of revenue by product category, for instance.
been looking for this vid for ever! thank you so much for doing this
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I just had my mind blown! Thank you so much!
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I like this a lot Thank you!
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Great!
Prior to Variables, how would you do a cumulative total measure?
Hello William Arthur,
Thank you for posting your query onto our channel. We really appreciate you taking your valuable time to post it.
Prior to the invention of variables, we were using the function called "EARLIER()" but it's not used much now-a-days due to the performance issues unless and until required. Below is the link of that function provided for the reference.
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is it possible that the variables no longer can hold a column value, only measures?? because i've been trying using a variable to store the value of a category, but power bi says it is the wrong type.
Hi Mariam Khalid, thanks for your interest in our TH-cam videos.
Variable does allow to use Column Name for creating calculating Column however if you are trying to use inside a Measure Variable will expect single value or a Table. For example, It will allow to use max(dates[date]) but not dates[date].
If you are creating a Calculated Column and still facing issues, please raise a Ticket at EDNA Forum forum.enterprisedna.co/.
Thanks for sharing.
It is possible to do the Cumulative Product Sales by Product Category?
Yes should be. You would just need to adjust the parameters around within the formula for that.
@@EnterpriseDNA How would you apply this formula to Number of Days Since Last Visit against Customer ID and Visit Date columns?
can you show how you meassuare your Total Sales?
Hi, Total Sales have beend discussed several times in the Enterprise DNA forum. You can check the link below:
forum.enterprisedna.co/search?expanded=true&q=total%20sales