topic Re: Final balance vs forecast in App Development

Final balance vs forecast

alexandernatale — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:48:58 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with the comparison between the final data and the forecast. I have 2 tables so structured.
For the final budget I have:

month | year | headquarters | final date

For the forecast I have:

month | year | headquarters | provisional data

I wanted to create a KPI that showed me the forecast at the end of the year, adding the final data to date (October) and adding the forecast data to conclude the year.

I tried with:

Sum({<year={2018}, Month>{$(= Max (Month))}>} [Provisional data])+Sum({<year={2018}) [final date])

...but don't work.

Thanks.

Re: Final balance vs forecast

mjtaft2017 — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:59:04 GMT

maybe this

Sum({<year={2018}, Month={>$(= Max (Month))}>} [Provisional data])+Sum({<year={2018}>}[final date])

Re: Final balance vs forecast

alexandernatale — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:43:35 GMT

thank you, Mary for the answer but don't work.

I tried to divide the formula and clearly the part that does not work is that relative to the provisional data. There is something that escapes me with the max function or in the use of the major symbol (>).

Re: Final balance vs forecast

dplr-rn — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:11:34 GMT

Did you try with quotes?

Month={">$(= Max (Month))"}

Re: Final balance vs forecast

alexandernatale — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:20:43 GMT

Yes, yes, yes!!! it's correct!!!!

There is another little problem. If I don't select the months, the value of KPI is egual to the sum of [final date] . If I selected ALL the months, the KPI it's ok. Why?

Re: Final balance vs forecast

dplr-rn — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:31:32 GMT

Because max (Month) will give you max of all the Months not just the actual values

i.e. if you have actual data till Oct. And Projections till Dec. As Month refers to both tables. Max(Month) gives value as Dec

You need redesign with flags or some other means to identify the months where actual data exists