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Helper IFiscal Year Issue
You have to DENORMALIZE your fact table COMPLETELY and correctly connect it to a Date table. It won't work in any other way if you want to use Quick Measures. So, no columns like Q1, Q2, Q3... You have to assign the rows in your fact table concrete dates, like, for instance, the first/last day of a quarter. And then, for this whole thing to work you have to hide the columns in your Date table that have a granularity higher than quarter.
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Darek
Helper IThank you Darek. I already unpivoted Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4 columns into a single Quarters column.
I didn't understand hiding columns. How will that make a difference?
Well, your fact table's granularity is the Quarter. If you start slicing it by months/dates, then you'll get numbers that will be incorrect or rather correct but not easy to interpret. Hiding the columns with higher granularities prevents people from using them and thus from seeing bullsh*t. But, of course, you're free to leave them visible. However, you then have to make sure yourself that your measures are aware of which granularity has been requested and take action accordingly.
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Darek