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Nihed's avatar
Nihed
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4 years ago

Dax need

You will see that there is a quarter selection on dashboard:       This selection comes from an excel file, however it is not great because users sometimes forget to update this excel file....
Nihed's avatar
Nihed
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4 years ago

thank you for your answer
just for information I don’t have a date table in my report I use an EXCEL file with this data and I wanted to create this data in a direct dynamic table to have  "QUARTER SELECTION " in Power BI how I can do please?

the data of the execel file:

 

 

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v-easonf-msft
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4 years ago

Hi, Nihed 

You can try following code  to manually create a calendar table to replace data in EXCEL file.

Calendar date = CALENDAR(DATE(2017,01,01),TODAY()) //calculated table

calculated columns:

Quarter = FORMAT('Calendar date'[Date],"YYYYQ")
Num quarter = 
VAR _year =
    YEAR ( TODAY () )
VAR _quarter =
    QUARTER ( TODAY () )
VAR _last_quarter =
    IF ( _quarter = 1, _year - 1 & "4", _year & _quarter - 1 )
RETURN
    IF (
        'Calendar date'[New quarter] = _last_quarter,
        "last quarter",
        'Calendar date'[New quarter]
    )

Due to the use of calculated table, you still need to refresh the calendar table to get the latest data.

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason

  • Nihed's avatar
    Nihed
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    4 years ago

    Hello,

    It works very well I did exactly the same thing, thank you very much for your help

     

    Thank you.