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How to determine the "same" date in the month last year based on working days remaining

Jan_Cools — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:43:19 GMT

Hello,

first post in this forum!

I'm struggling to get a workaround the following issue:

I've created some visuals where I can follow the day to day cumulative (month to date) sales for a specific month.

Based on a slicer, I select a certain date in the month and would like to compare the month to date sales value with the same month last year, but the related date, last year, should be the one that has the same amount of working days left as the date I selected in the filter.

I used the function NETWORKINGDAYS to determine how many working days are left in the month for which I picked the date, but how to get the relevant date in the month of previous year.

For the ease of understanding, assume that only Saturday and Sundays are non working days.

Any help is welcome!

The formula used to determine the working days left based on selection is:

Remaining_Work_Days = NETWORKDAYS(SELECTEDVALUE('CALENDAR'[Date]),ENDOFMONTH('CALENDAR'[Date]),1)

Calendar table is in place and all relevant relationships, with the sales table, are made.

Thanks, Jan

Re: How to determine the "same" date in the month last year based on working days remaining

saudansari — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:50:26 GMT

If you can share sample file it will be great

Re: How to determine the "same" date in the month last year based on working days remaining

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 08:01:45 GMT

Hi, Jan_Cools

May I ask if this is the expected output you are looking for? Based on your description, I have created many measures to achieve the effect you are looking for. Following picture shows the effect of the display.

Measures:

Remaining_Work_Days = VAR remaining_Work_Days = NETWORKDAYS ( SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Date] ), ENDOFMONTH ( 'Table'[Date] ), 1 ) RETURN remaining_Work_Days SameWorkingDayLastYear = VAR SelectedDate = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Date] ) VAR SameDayLastYear = SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( 'Table'[Date] ) VAR SameMonthLastYear = EOMONTH ( SelectedDate, -12 ) VAR WorkingDaysLastYear = NETWORKDAYS ( SameDayLastYear, SameMonthLastYear ) RETURN WorkingDaysLastYear TrueValuesLastYear = VAR DIFFDAYS = [Remaining_Work_Days] - [SameWorkingDayLastYear] VAR SelectedDate = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Date] ) VAR SameDayLastYear = SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( 'Table'[Date] ) VAR StartMonthLastYear = EOMONTH ( SelectedDate, -13 ) + 1 VAR _tureSameDayLastYear = SWITCH ( DIFFDAYS, -1, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 1 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear + 3, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 1 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear + 2, SameDayLastYear + 1 ), -2, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 2 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear + 4, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 2 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear + 3, SameDayLastYear + 2 ), -3, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 3 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear + 5, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear + 3 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear + 4, SameDayLastYear + 3 ), 1, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 1 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear - 2, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 1 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear - 3, SameDayLastYear - 1 ), 2, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 2 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear - 4, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 2 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear - 3, SameDayLastYear - 2 ), 3, SWITCH ( TRUE (), WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 3 ) = 7, SameDayLastYear - 5, WEEKDAY ( SameDayLastYear - 3 ) = 1, SameDayLastYear - 4, SameDayLastYear - 3 ), SameDayLastYear ) VAR _ValuesLastYear = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'CALENDAR'[Value] ), 'CALENDAR'[Date] >= StartMonthLastYear && 'CALENDAR'[Date] <= _tureSameDayLastYear ) RETURN _ValuesLastYear ValuesThisYear = VAR SelectedDate = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[Date] ) VAR DateStartOfMonth = EOMONTH ( SelectedDate, -1 ) + 1 VAR _ValuesThisYear = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'CALENDAR'[Value] ), 'CALENDAR'[Date] >= DateStartOfMonth && 'CALENDAR'[Date] <= SelectedDate ) RETURN _ValuesThisYear

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Re: How to determine the "same" date in the month last year based on working days remaining

Jan_Cools — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 08:25:38 GMT

Perfect Anonymous Yang!

seems to be working as expected.

Thanks a lot.