topic Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales in DAX Commands and Tips

LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

james_pease — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:08:06 GMT

Hello everyone, I created a measure for last year sales and plan to do the same for 2 years back. I created the following measure:

LY Sales = CALCULATE(Sum(Cotti_Coupon[Sales]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(Date_Value[DateValue].[Date]))

Does anyone know why the LY Sales are displaying the values for the the current year instead of LY?

I am expecting to see the following values in the LY column

Here are my relationships. As you can see, store #s are connected to a master store list, and dates are connected to a date table

Thank you in advance!

Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

AilleryO — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:13:00 GMT

Hi,

Since you have a date table, you should use the date of your date table and not the one from the fact table.

One more thing do not forget to mark your date table as a date table, and to link (seems done on your screencopy).

But the stange thing is that you might have forgotten something, because if your date is related to your date table or coming from the date table, you should not see the date hierarchy (Date.Year or Date.Month...).

So that's why I'm guessing your table is not marked or linked properly 😉

Let us know

Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

james_pease — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:17:17 GMT

Sorry, Yes I selected the Date column from the Coupon table, but even when I select the date from the date table, the values for LY = current sales

Here are the relationships

Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

AilleryO — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:17:29 GMT

And your date table is marked as such ?

Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

james_pease — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:19:55 GMT

WOW thank you, I feel dumb.

Re: LY Sales Measure is displaying current year sales

AilleryO — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:22:36 GMT

No worries it happens to all of us...

and dumbness is well shared amongst all of us, with an equal distribution 😉