Ahead Moving Average - Circle Reference?

[Guipedroso]

Hello Guys,

I am creating a kind of "Sales Forecast" model. To plan ahead, i am using the 6months average of the Actual Sales ahead. In Excel is quite simple, but how to implement in DAX?

To better explaing, i am adding an image with the Actual Sales until September 2017, and how i want calculate the months ahead. Does anyone has any clue?

Thank you so much

[v-chuncz-msft]

@Guipedroso,

Based on my experience, you may try to invoke a recursive custom function in Query Editor.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt185361.aspx

[Guipedroso]

Hello @v-chuncz-msft! thank you so much for your time ...

I would like to do it using DAX formulas, because i will use other Dimensions do Categorize the forecast (Products, Customers etc)...

[v-chuncz-msft]

@Guipedroso,

As far as I know, there is no elegant way.

[Guipedroso]

@v-chuncz-msft yeah, i tried those "no elegant" ways, but the model is colapsing after the 6 month calculation. Too much "IF"s
Thats so annoying this situation for circular reference limitation...

Cheers

[v-chuncz-msft]

@Guipedroso,

It's a mathematical problem of finding the general formula of recurrent sequence.