DAX Moving Average Measure

Notes

Change -7 to whatever window length your moving average should use.

Requirements

• A marked Date table and the Total Sales measure.

Builds on these measures

• Total SalesSums a revenue column across whatever filter context is currently applied.

How to use this measure

1. In Power BI Desktop, select the table that should hold the measure and choose New measure on the ribbon.
2. Paste the code, then replace the placeholder table and column names with your own. The My table names fields above do this for you.
3. Run it through the DAX Formatter if you want it laid out in your team's style.

Related DAX measures

• Rolling 12 Month AverageAverages monthly sales over the trailing twelve months, smoothing out seasonal spikes.
• Rolling 6-Month SalesSums sales over the trailing six months ending on the last date in the current filter context.
• Last 7, 30, and 90 Days SalesSums sales over a fixed trailing window of days from the last date with data, ignoring any date filter already applied.
• Fiscal Previous Year SalesCalculates total sales for the entire previous fiscal year.
• Cumulative TotalAccumulates sales from the start of the data through the current date filter context.
• Rolling 3-Month SalesSums sales over the 3 months ending on the latest date in the current context.

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