topic Re: Issues handling Year Over Year in non continious dates in DAX Commands and Tips

Issues handling Year Over Year in non continious dates

hescudero95 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:57:13 GMT

Hi everybody, I really need your help. So I have a table with non continious dates (they are working days dates), and I need to calculate the YoY variation. The issue I have is that using dateadd returns blanks values instead of the closest avaiable date. For example if my current date is october 02, 2023 I want it to return the variation considering as last year date september 30, 2022 (since october 2 and october 1 are weekends). Please I need your help.

Re: Issues handling Year Over Year in non continious dates

lbendlin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:29:00 GMT

Add a contiguous and covering Calendar table to your data model. Run the time intelligence functions against that table.

Re: Issues handling Year Over Year in non continious dates

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:36:34 GMT

Hi hescudero95

lbendlinThank you very much for sharing

I understand that you encountered an error when using dateadd.

You mentioned that you have a table containing non-consecutive dates.

For the dateadd function, it returns a table containing a column of dates that are shifted forward or backward in time by a specified number of intervals from the date in the current context.

Note that if the dates in the current context do not form consecutive intervals, this function will return an error.

You can view the link below for more details:

DATEADD function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

If you still have problems, it is best to provide the pbix file and be careful to delete sensitive data.

Regards,

Nono Chen

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