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pavkey88
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Create a Calculated Column from Different Data sets

I'm having a bit of a struggle with this. 

 

I have one data set that contains productID and product unit price and another data set that contains productID and unit cost. I have them related so that I can see the product ID, unit price and unit cost in the report, but I want to create another (measured?) column for unit profit. this is what I'm trying:

 

Measure = SUM(ALLdata[Unit Price]-('display-cost-feb2016'[Cost]))

 

But it tells me the SUM function only accepts a column reference as an argument. Unit Price and Cost are both column names, just on 2 different data sets. What am I doing wrong?

 

thanks!

 

 

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SqlJason
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Your syntax has to be changed to

Measure = sum(Table1[column1]) - sum(Table2[column2])

 

Can you try this and let me know if it is ok?

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SqlJason
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Your syntax has to be changed to

Measure = sum(Table1[column1]) - sum(Table2[column2])

 

Can you try this and let me know if it is ok?

I'm trying to do something similar to this but I'm calculating a share percentage so I'm dividing the two numbers (ex. sum(Table1[column1]) / sum(Table2[column2]). The problem I'm having is that the value from table 2 seems to have lost any reference it had to the year because my numbers are way off because it is using the grand total of the column 2 value for the division instead of just using the portion that belongs to a single year (see below).

DataSample.JPG

The _ITAVolume number for 2011 should be around 158,000.

 

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks @SqlJason - works perfectly. YAY!

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