topic Re: Target to date in DAX Commands and Tips

Target to date

renlaforest — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:42:22 GMT

Hello - I'm new to Power BI and DAX. I've strugged with figuring out the following.

I have a start date for the project and a close date, and I created a column to calculate the total number of days.

I've also got a total target column for those dates. If the total target is 1000, and yesterday was half way through the start and close dates, I'd like the target to be 500. If today's after the close date, I'd like the target to be 1000. For clarify, if today's the close date, and the project is open for 10 days, I'd like the target to be 900.

In the example above, the target shouldn't be 3288 - it should be 1644 since we're half way through the dates that the project is open.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Re: Target to date

amitchandak — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:30:34 GMT

renlaforest , Can you check one of the two approaches can help

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-divide-distribute-values-between-start-date-or-end-date/ba-p/1503785

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/HR-Analytics-Active-Employee-Hire-and-Termination-trend/ba-p/882970

Re: Target to date

v-janeyg-msft — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 03:24:28 GMT

Hi, renlaforest

I don't understand your requirements. Your dates are all in 2021, and the examples you gave are all today and yesterday. Is there any connection between them? Can you explain more details?

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Janey

Re: Target to date

renlaforest — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:55:15 GMT

v-janeyg-msft - the table has dates from 2021 to 2023. The snip that I took is from the top, which only shows the older, closed projects. There are dates in the table that span each week of the year. Hope that helps.

Re: Target to date

renlaforest — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:48:54 GMT

v-janeyg-msft - the table has all of the dates for our projects between 2021 and 2023, and you're seeing the older projects at the top of the list. If I wanted to do this in Excel, there may be a more elegant way to do this, but I'd use a formula like this one to do what I'm trying to do here:

Re: Target to date

v-janeyg-msft — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:34:26 GMT

Hi, renlaforest

You can try:

column = IF ( TODAY () > [Start], IF ( TODAY () <= [Close], [Total target] / ( DATEDIFF ( [Start], [Close], DAY ) + 1 ) * ( DATEDIFF ( [Start], TODAY (), DAY ) + 1 ), [Total target] ), 0 )

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Re: Target to date

renlaforest — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:17:34 GMT

Thank you so much for your help. For some reason, and I've tried Googling (unsuccesfuly) what could be causing it, but I get an error message: Expression.Error: The name 'IF' wasn't recognized. Make sure it's spelled correctly.

I have:

IF (
TODAY () > [Start Date],
IF (
TODAY () <= [Close Date],
([EN Targeted Completes]
/ ( DATEDIFF ( [Start Date], [Close Date], DAY ) + 1 ))
* ( DATEDIFF ( [Start Date], TODAY (), DAY ) + 1 ),
[EN Targeted Completes]
),
0
)

Re: Target to date

v-janeyg-msft — Tue, 03 May 2022 07:33:31 GMT

Hi, renlaforest

This error shows that you are using the custom column feature in powerquery.

But the code is DAX, not M code. You need to create it in desktop.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Janey
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