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I have a a column of dollar amounts that I want to calculate the running difference (opposite of sum() ? ) of. Does Reporting services have a diff function or something way that I can do a running difference on a column?

Example dataset:

Year  |    amt   | pts
2007  |  1500    | 0
2008  |  1200    | 10
2009  |  1800    | 0

what I'm looking to do is take a running difference of the amt column and another for the pts column. Something to get me to...

amt = -1500     // (1500 - 1200 - 1800) 
pts = -10       // ( 0 - 10 - 0)
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running difference of what? – Diego May 17 '12 at 14:03
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Need more information in order to answer this question. From your sample data, we can't really tell what's being operated on. – swasheck May 18 '12 at 19:01
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@swasheck - I'm guessing that the first column is the year. Then he starts with the first value of the second column (1500) and it extracts every next row, so it would be 1500-1200-1800 = -1500; the same for the third column – Lamak May 18 '12 at 19:06

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You can use an expression for the total that would look like this:

=SUM(iif(Fields!Year.Value = MIN(Fields!Year.Value, "YourDataset"),Fields!Dollar.value,-1*Fields!Dollar.value))
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