SamePeriodLastYear returns an empty colum but with a correct total

CertainlyMe — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:20:36 GMT

Hi everyone 🙂

First steps with Power BI here.

I'm working on road accidents, trying to build a table to compare the number of accidents for every month of 2022 with the same month of 2021.

I work from a very simple table (Table_Accidents) that contains a line for every accident and elements on these accidents (date, place, type, etc.).

So I did the following :

I made a DAX formula to count the number of lines, which is my total number of accidents :

Nb_Accidents = COUNT(table_Accidents[#])

"#" being the name of the column where I just apply a different number to a new accident.

Then I wrote this formula :

Nb_accidents_Y-1 = CALCULATE(COUNT(table_Accidents[#]));SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(Table_Accidents[date]))

Then I build a simple table with these two items, and I get close to where I want , except for my Y-1 column, the column is completely empty, but the total is here and correct (?!)

Same if I try with a SUM of accident costs, for instance: I get an empty column but with a correct total...

If anyone has a clue on this...

Have a nice day 🙂

Jim

Re: SamePeriodLastYear returns an empty colum but with a correct total

tamerj1 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:56:44 GMT

Hi CertainlyMe

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR is a time intelligence function that requires a proper date table with unique and contiguous date values. Create a date table snd create a relationship between the date table snd your table then you can use 'Date'[Date] in SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR

Re: SamePeriodLastYear returns an empty colum but with a correct total

CertainlyMe — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:58:51 GMT

Hey tamerj1

Yess it worked !

Thank you very much for your help !

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