topic Re: Need help for doing Column Cumulative in VA 6.4 in SAS Visual Analytics

Need help for doing Column Cumulative in VA 6.4

avinesh — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:07:02 GMT

Can anyone explain me how to do column cumulative in VA 6.4.Thanks in advance..

PeterWijers — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:15:48 GMT

Dear avinesh...

If all of your data is related to a real date and can be reported in calendar month/days etc you can use the standard YearToDate function

First created a cross table with the month and dayOfMonth related to the transaction Date. (Just an example)

Then go to the Kg field in the data tab and right click the mouse for the options to select Create and YearToDate Using Date. (The transaction date)

Just drag in the new variable and thats it.

This is from SAS VA 6.3, but I am sure its must be almost the same.

Greetings and good luck.

avinesh — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:03:45 GMT

Hi PeterWijers

Thanks for your reply.But My client looking a column cumulative answer like a snapshot which i am annexing here.

PeterWijers — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:18:04 GMT

Hi avinesh,

Just a quick question.

Is the data already on month level cumulated or is the data below still on date level.

greetings

avinesh — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:09:51 GMT

Hi peterwijers,

still it is in date level only...

PeterWijers — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:31:11 GMT

Hi, Avinesh,

Than it works the same way, but only you have to define a copied item of the Date to Month format.

Sadly I see that if you put year in front of the month, the calculations reset for every year. (I have no idea how to solve this within VA)

So I have no direct solution for the cumulation over the years. (Maybe someone else has a good idea how to solve this)

Anyway good luck.

Greetings