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Anonymous
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3 years ago

How to use different measures based on selected date range

Good Day

 

I have been struggling for weeks now. I need help please on using dax, I have 4 measures one for each quarter in the year. I am struggling to figure out how can One use the a certian measure based on the selected date range. eg: If user selects 01 Jan 2023-15 Jan 2023 measure 1 should apply for that period or the user selects 01 April 2023 - 15 April 2023 measure 2 should apply.

 

I would really appreciate the assistance. 

 

Regards,

 

Itu

3 Replies

  • tt_and's avatar
    tt_and
    Advocate I
    3 years ago

    Hi. I assume you have a date table that's used for slicing on dates. If you add a column to the date table defining each period on each date row, you can use this with a switch in a base measure.

     

     

    Base measure = 
switch(
    calendar[Period],
    1, [Measure1],
    2, [Measure2],
    3, [Measure3],
    4, [Measure4]
)

     

     

    • ferial_coder's avatar
      ferial_coder
      Frequent Visitor
      1 year ago

      Building on the approach proposed by tt_and, you can also create a measure. The trick is to utilize a vartual table within the measure to generate the total of all the different measures you are switching between. 

       

      Base measure =
VAR __table1 =
    ADDCOLUMNS (
        calendar,
        "@composite_measure",
            SWITCH (
                calendar[Period],
                1, [Measure1],
                2, [Measure2],
                3, [Measure3],
                4, [Measure4]
            )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX ( __table1, [@composite_measure] )

       

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    3 years ago

    Good Day tt_and

     

     

    Thank you for assisting. Kindly note that the switch formula doesn't return the calandar table, screen dump below to show what I am getting.