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Firstnonblank not working without month month column
Hello everyone - I'm trying to get the very first month name where I have a transaction. I tried to use Firstnonblank but it's not working as expected. Here's my dataset
| Customer | August, 2022 | September, 2022 | November, 2022 | December 2022 |
| A | 1 | 1 | ||
| B | 5 | 5 |
I tried this expression
Cust Firt Order:=FIRSTNONBLANK(Sales[Fiscal Month],[Lics]>0)
But is not working for all cases
| Customer | Cust First Order |
| A | August, 2022 |
| B | December, 2022 |
For customer A, I get the correct date since the first transaction ocurred in August, but for customer B, I'm getting the December date when I should get November.
Appreciate your help!
artlearning , Make sure you are using a date table , use date in place of month name, month name are not sortable , Create date from Month Year
calculate(firstnonblankvalues(Date[Date], [Value Measure]) )
or
calculate(firstnonblankvalues(Date[Date] ), [Value Measure]), filter( allselected(Table), Table[Customer] = max(Table[Customer]) ) )
Also, you can explore the Index function
Power BI Index function: Top/Bottom Performer by name and value- https://youtu.be/HPhzzCwe10U
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- amitchandak
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artlearning , Make sure you are using a date table , use date in place of month name, month name are not sortable , Create date from Month Year
calculate(firstnonblankvalues(Date[Date], [Value Measure]) )
or
calculate(firstnonblankvalues(Date[Date] ), [Value Measure]), filter( allselected(Table), Table[Customer] = max(Table[Customer]) ) )
Also, you can explore the Index function
Power BI Index function: Top/Bottom Performer by name and value- https://youtu.be/HPhzzCwe10U