topic Re: Running total for previous month stops at the last day of current month in DAX Commands and Tips

Running total for previous month stops at the last day of current month

jori — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

Hi guys,

I have the following measure to calculate the running total for the previous month:

CALCULATE ( [_UmsatzTotal], DATESMTD ( DATEADD ( Datumstabelle[FullDateAlternateKey], -1, MONTH ) ) )

It worked fine in January, but in February, the running total only goes up to the 28th.

I found another way to do it, but I still have the same issue:

CALCULATE( [_UmsatzTotal], FILTER( ALL( Datumstabelle ), Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ] = MAX( Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ] ) + 1 && Datumstabelle[Day] <= MAX ( Datumstabelle[Day] ) ) )

It always takes the Day value in my date table for the current month which only goes up to 28 in February.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you!

Re: Running total for previous month stops at the last day of current month

lbendlin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:42:38 GMT

Petition for all months to have the same number of days! 🙂

It is what it is. The time intelligence functions have to perform contorsions when it comes to "same day last month" at the end of each month. There is no real "fix" for that.

Re: Running total for previous month stops at the last day of current month

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:37:22 GMT

Hi jori ,

You can use the EOMONTH function to get the last day of the previous month and then calculate the summary from the first to the last day of the previous month.

CALCULATE( [_UmsatzTotal], DATESBETWEEN( Datumstabelle[FullDateAlternateKey], EOMONTH(TODAY(), -2) + 1, EOMONTH(TODAY(), -1) ) )

You could adjust the date filter to ensure that no dates are missed when working with February.

CALCULATE( [_UmsatzTotal], FILTER( ALL(Datumstabelle), Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ] = MAX(Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ]) - 1 && Datumstabelle[Day] <= MAX(Datumstabelle[Day]) ) )

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Re: Running total for previous month stops at the last day of current month

jori — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:44:47 GMT

Unfortunately, this does not calculate the running total.

I actually found a way though:

Instead of having the current month in the x-axis, I keep the date fixed on January of this year.

Then I just change the relative month in the measure based on the difference to January (it's negative for me because the relative date for the past is a positive value in my model):

VAR Relativ = MONTH ( TODAY () ) - 2 RETURN CALCULATE( [_UmsatzTotal], FILTER( ALL( Datumstabelle ), Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ] = MAX( Datumstabelle[Monat Relativ] ) - Relativ && Datumstabelle[Day] <= MAX ( Datumstabelle[Day] ) ) )