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Handling Multiple dates inside visual

So I have a table with multiple dates: 'Opened Date', 'Closed Date', 'Maintenance Start Date', 'Maintenance End Date'.

Other than dates I have also 'Total Approved'.

 

I have created a calendar table and created inactive relationships to be able to handle all dates using USERELATIONSHIP.

Currently I have 2 Measures:

 

 

Total Approved by Maintenance End Date = 
CALCULATE(
    SUM ( Table[TOTAL APPROVED] ),
    USERELATIONSHIP(
        dCalendar[Date],
        Table[MAINTENANCE END DATE]
    )
)
Total Approved by Closed Date = 
CALCULATE(
    SUM ( Table[TOTAL APPROVED] ),
    USERELATIONSHIP(
        dCalendar[Date],
        Table[CLOSED DATE]
    )
)

 

 

 I can see each one separately in a column chart, but I wanted to have a consolidated view. I wanted to create a column chart which has Closed Date as X-axis, Total Approved as Values, and Maintenance End Date as Legend. Something like I did in this Excel below (but if I could group by Month, instead of Year, it'd be even better).

 

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Anonymous 

     

    To do what you want you have to have role-playing date/time dimensions. You can't achieve it with just one Date table. Sorry. Please create as many date tables as there are dates you want to visualize independently.

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    Anonymous
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    Anonymous 

     

    To do what you want you have to have role-playing date/time dimensions. You can't achieve it with just one Date table. Sorry. Please create as many date tables as there are dates you want to visualize independently.

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      Anonymous
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      Makes sense...so I should create another date table (as I only want a visual with 2 of the dates), but then what? Should I create inactive relations between all dates again? Should I relate the date tables as well?

       

      I was actually thinking about something more on the line of using Summarize to group the costs by maintenance end date, but I don't know if that would work.

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        Anonymous
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        Inactive relationships are created when one and the same table joins to another on 2 or more different fields. You don't have such a situation since in this case each date table will join to the same table on one (and different) field.

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      Sorry, I cannot share it as there are many sensitive data.