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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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DateADD for single value

Hi everyone,

 

I am looking for a way to use DateADD (or previousmonth) to have the previous month of the date that I am selecting.

 

Example : 

VAR SelectedDateCurrent = SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date])
Return DATEADD(SelectedDateCurrent,-1,MONTH)
 
Of course this code doesn't work because DateADD can only have a column as a parameter, but you have now the idea.
I am using an IF to fix it for now (if = 1 then 12) but I am looking for an easiest way.
 
Thank you !
Loveboch,
  • Fowmy's avatar
    Fowmy
    6 years ago

    Anonymous 

    Try 

    =EDATE([DATE],-1)

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    6 years ago

    Anonymous 

    Try 

    =EDATE([DATE],-1)

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    • mattAtBradyCorp's avatar
      mattAtBradyCorp
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      10 months ago

      This answers the original question, but I came here looking for a way to figure out the month from seven days ago. So I want something like =MONTH( EDATE(my_date_var, -7, DAY) )

      But as far as I can tell this isn't possible?

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    amitchandak
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    6 years ago

    Anonymous ,

    Try like

    VAR SelectedDateCurrent = SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date])
    Return DATE(year(SelectedDateCurrent),Month(SelectedDateCurrent)-1,day(SelectedDateCurrent))

     

    refer

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Date-as-Dateadd-Decoding-Date-and-Calendar-5-5-Power-BI-Turning/ba-p/1187827

     

    another option

    VAR SelectedDateCurrent = maxx('Date' , dateadd('Date'[Date],-1, month))
    Return SelectedDateCurrent

     

    dateadd need continuous dates