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SSAS - tabular | The EARLIER Function exercise | Group shopping centres into bands, by size
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| Software ==> | SSAS - tabular (29 exercises) |
| Version ==> | SSAS 2012 and later |
| Topic ==> | The EARLIER Function (1 exercise) |
| Level ==> | Harder than average |
| Course ==> | SSAS - Tabular Model |
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This exercise assumes that you have a base model set up (see one of the many other SSAS tabular exercises on loading tables from the MAM database and creating a model).
Open the Word document in the above folder, and paste it into your model to create a new table:
The new table, which is here called Categories.
Create a calculated column in the Centre table to give the value of the category by using this logic:
If you succeed (and there are many things which can go wrong!) you should be able to create this pivot table:
Just to ice the cake, the sizes have been sorted correctly.
If you want to keep a copy of what you've done, use DAX Editor to create a copy of your measures with extension .dax called Mind-expanding DAX, and save your workbook with the same file name.
This will be the solution
=CALCULATE( VALUES('unit sizes'[Category]), VALUE('unit sizes'[Lower])<=EARLIER(tblCentre[NumberUnits]), VALUE('unit sizes'[Upper])>EARLIER(tblCentre[NumberUnits]) )
I got the same solution as above, but with using Switch. How can I use EARLIER here ?
We don't give out answers to exercises I'm afraid - there has to be some incentive to attend our courses! However, you can see how the EARLIER function works by watching this video (it'a about Power BI for Excel, but the DAX formulae and principles are the same) or viewing this blog.