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Quote alibobs Replybullet Topic: Problems with calculating sum & avg w. conditions
    Posted: 20 Sep 2012 at 5:10am
I'm a newbie at CR 7 (sorry if I'm not following etiquette or this has been posted before). I've been given a pre-existing CR file to edit. Basically what I need to do is:
a) retrieve data for 'year' and 'year-1' (done)
b) based on retrieved data: if 'sales_value_for_month' > 500, include it in the dataset to calculate summaries
c) need the following summaries:
    1) sum of 12 months of data for both 'year' and 'year-1' as summary
    2) average of 12 months of data where average=(sum of monthly values>500)/# of months with values>500

I've tried the sum and avg functions but I'm not getting the data I need and I don't know enough about how to create custom formulae to sort this out.

Any help/guidance is appreciated.
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Quote Sastry Replybullet Posted: 20 Sep 2012 at 9:03pm
Hi
 
I really don't know whether you can create running totals with CR7.  Under Field Explorer, you will find running totals. 
 
Try to create two running totals one for sum of months value >500 and other for count of months where value>500
 
 
To get sum of months value >500 :
 
Create new running total-- Select the amount field-- select 'sum' to get summaries
 
Evaluate : use formula and say sum(value) > 500
 
reset --never
 
create one formula to arrive average.
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 4:30am
IIRC, running total weren't available in CR7.  :(
 
Is Sales_value_for_month a field in your data or is it something you have to calculate?
 
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