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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
DATEADD not working on certain date values
I have a calculated column in my data set (DataTable2019 Test) which is looking at a date column (History Date) subtracting one year from the date and then returning a custom formatted date. For full...
- 4 years ago
I'm guessing your date table doesn't have dates prior to 2020. DATEADD doesn't work by adding or subtracting from a given date, it returns a result from your date table shifted by the interval you've specified. If no dates exist prior to 2020, you won't get a result. Take a look at the DATEADD documentation for more info.
DATEADD function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs
Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
That makes sense, thank you.
is there another function that can just subtract 1 year from the date in the history table?
so for the 2020 dates in my table, they would return a result of "YE 2019".
AUaero
Responsive Resident
4 years agoTake a look at the EDATE function