topic Re: table with more than one date column in DAX Commands and Tips

table with more than one date column

miinseon — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:14:25 GMT

Hi all 🙂

I want to ask a question about a table with more than one date column

My table has more than one date column.
I want to get a measure for each date column.
For example, if I have a reserve date and a payment date, I want to get a measure for the number of bookings and the amount paid in one screen.

I've included some data from the table below and an example of the screen I'd like to display.

I hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance

Re: table with more than one date column

bhanu_gautam — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:25:57 GMT

miinseon , You can achieve this using Measure and date table

First create measures
CountBookingsByReserveDate = COUNTROWS('Bookings')

TotalAmountPaidByPaymentDate = SUM('Bookings'[AmountPaid])

Then create a date table for reserve date go to modelling and new table

ReserveDateTable = CALENDAR(MIN('Bookings'[ReserveDate]), MAX('Bookings'[ReserveDate]))

Similarly new table for Payment

PaymentDateTable = CALENDAR(MIN('Bookings'[PaymentDate]), MAX('Bookings'[PaymentDate]))

Create a relationship between Bookings[ReserveDate] and ReserveDateTable[Date].

Create a relationship between Bookings[PaymentDate] and PaymentDateTable[Date].

Then create visualizations

Re: table with more than one date column

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:45:23 GMT

Hi miinseon ,

Your solution is great, bhanu_gautam . Here I have another idea in mind, and I would like to share it for reference.

As per your question, I have created simple data :

Since you need to get the amount paid one day after the reserve date, we use the following function:

Measure 2 = VAR _date = SELECTEDVALUE('DAX DateTable'[Date]) + 1 VAR _sum = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[price]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),'Table'[payment_date] = _date && 'Table'[reserve_date] = SELECTEDVALUE('DAX DateTable'[Date]))) RETURN _sum

The final results are as follows:

If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.

Best Regards,
Zhu
Community Support Team

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Re: table with more than one date column

mark_endicott — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:17:05 GMT

miinseon - To build on the idea from bhanu_gautam you can also do this with one date table.

Create base measures:

CountBookings = COUNTROWS('Bookings') TotalAmount = SUM('Bookings'[AmountPaid])

Then create measures that reference these, but change the context of their calculation by date:

CountBookingsByReserveDate = CALCULATE( [CountBookings], USERELATIONSHIP( 'Bookings'[Reserve Date], 'Calendar_table'[Date])) TotalAmountPaidByReserveDate = CALCULATE( [TotalAmountPaid], USERELATIONSHIP( 'Bookings'[Reserve Date], 'Calendar_table'[Date])) CountBookingsByPaymentDate = CALCULATE( [CountBookings], USERELATIONSHIP( 'Bookings'[Payment Date], 'Calendar_table'[Date])) TotalAmountPaidByPaymentDate = CALCULATE( [TotalAmountPaid], USERELATIONSHIP( 'Bookings'[Payment Date], 'Calendar_table'[Date]))

Finally these measures will only work once you have created 2 "In-active" relationships from the Calendar table to the respective dates in the Bookings table. Very important to make sure they are both In-active.

If this works for you, please mark as the solution.