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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Date issues on a custom date

Hello,

 

I have issues to associate dates correctly. I don't really know how to workaround this.
Note: the second table is a view and i can modify it for my needs.


I have dimension date table as follow:


I have an other table with products and dates like this (i show you only dates here):


I made a relation between them:


I want to count customer by entity for a specific report period, so i made a segment on the Generic_Period.
I created mesures for this segment:

Customers = 
CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('Customers'[Customer]), 
filter(Customers, Customers[Generic_Period] = DATEADD(Customers[Generic_Period],0,MONTH)))

Customers M-1 = 
CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('Customers'[Customer]), 
filter(Customers, Customers[Generic_Period] = DATEADD(Customers[Generic_Period],-1,MONTH)))


The first probleme is Q-1 returns 0 values :


The second problem, It doesn't work if the day number isn't the same as previous month.
If i select 30/09/2019 it will not retrieve the 31/10/2019 even with end of month -1 like this :

ENDOFMONTH(DATEADD(Subscription_Partner_by_month[Generic_Period],-1,MONTH))

 

Thanks a lot for your time.

 

Date and Time
segmentation

3 Replies

  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    Super User
    5 years ago

    Anonymous , the requirement is not very clear.

    dateadd should be used on the date table

     

    example

     

    QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(('Date'[Date])))
    Last QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,QUARTER)))

    Last QUARTER Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD( ENDOFQUARTER(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,QUARTER))))
    Last QUARTER Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),PREVIOUSQUARTER(('Date'[Date])))

    Last to last QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-2,QUARTER)))
    Next QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],1,QUARTER)))
    Last year same QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Year)))
    Last year same QTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESQTD(ENDOFQUARTER(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Year))))
    trailing QTR = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,QUARTER))
    trailing 4 QTR = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),dateadd('Date'[Date],-4,QUARTER))

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      5 years ago

      Hello amitchandak ,

       

      you reply me each time and i thank you for that but CALCULATE(SUM doesn,'t work in my case as my field is a string !


      I have a date column in my data table wich i want to link with my date table.
      I want to retrieve all the data wich corresponding to the generic_period colum. I would have the same for Month-1, Month-2 etc ...

      For exemple: if i choose in my report segment period 30/09/2019, i would also retrieve data from the previous report period (31/08/2019), but it is blank in my result table.

      This seems not work ? i am doing something wrong here ? How could i handle it ?

       

       

      test Q-1 = 
CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('Customers'[Customer]),
filter('Date', ENDOFMONTH(DATEADD('Date'[Date],-1,MONTH)) IN (ALLSELECTED(Customers[Generic_Period])))
)

       

       

      My date table is generated like this:

       

       

      Date = CALENDAR(DATE(2018,1,1),DATE(2030,12,31))

       

       

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    5 years ago

    even with this value, now it work in a card but my M-1 column is still empty.

    EOMONTH(ALLSELECTED(Customers[Generic_Period]),-1)