How to subtract a group of variables from a column

[0xygen27]

Dear Community, 

I am a new user and working on my first dashboard in Power BI. The file I got has data in weekly frequentcy from different departments, these are all sorted on date. One column is the amount of employees from the department on that specific date, I want to calculate what the total amount of workers is on that date and how many percentage of the total employees are working for that department.

The table is like this 

Column A(Date) Column B(Departement) Column C (Profiles,which is how many people there are) Column D (Variable X)

19-02-2017         Department A                   8

19-02-2017         Department B                   9

19-02-2017         Department C                   293

26-02-2017         Department A                  15

26-02-2017         Department B                   8

26-02-2017         Department C                   300

So I want to calculate  

Total Employees on that date 

Percentage of employees working for that department on that date 

Thanks in advance,

0xygen27

[CheenuSing]

Hi @0xygen27

Try the following

1. Create a measure called TotalByDate

   TotalByDate = Calculate(sum(Table3[ColumnC]), ALLEXCEPT(Table3,Table3[ColumnA]))

2. Createa measure called %toTotal

   %toTotal = Divide(sum(Table3[ColumnC]),[TotalByDate])

Replace all Table3 by your tablename. Sample output with the data provided by you.

 

If this resolves your issue, please accept it as a solution and also give KUDOS.

Cheers

CheenuSing

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @0xygen27,

You can try to use below formula which about calculate the running total:

Measure:

Running total=
var currDepart= LASTNONBLANK(Table[Department],[Department])
return
SUMX(FILTER(ALLSELECTED(Table),Table[Department]=currDepart&&Table[Date]<=MAX(Table[Date])),[Profiles])

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[0xygen27]

Power BI gives me the return: The MAX function only accepts a column reference as an argument.

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @0xygen27,

>>Power BI gives me the return: The MAX function only accepts a column reference as an argument.

Can you share us your formula?

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[0xygen27]

Running total = var currDepart= LASTNONBLANK('database'[Profiel],'database')
return
SUMX(FILTER(ALLSELECTED('database'),'database'[Profiel]
=currDepart&&RELATEDTABLE(Datedimension)<=MAX(Datedimension)),'database'[Profiel])

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @0xygen27,

>>RELATEDTABLE(Datedimension)<=MAX(Datedimension)

You need to specify a column from that table, max function not works on table.

In addition, if your visual has created from different table, it will be help if you share some sample data.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng