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Tanushree_Kapse
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Calculate the number of months.

Hi All,

 

I have a Date Slicer, wherein I want to have the "Latest Date" selected always.
For this I created a column
SlicerDate= IF(Table[Date]= MAX(Table[Date]),"Latest Date")

 

And this works fine when I pull this in the slicer and keep it single selected so that the Latest Date is selected always by default.

 

Now, 

I want to calculate the No. of Months till the selected date: 
If in the slicer, the latest date is 31-07-2021, then the No. of months should be 7.

I created this measure: 
No. of months= MONTH(SELECTEDVALUE(Table[SlicerDate]))

 

But this is giving error, as I have the "Latest Date" text in this column.
So, how do I calculate the No of months...with the date selected in this slicer?

 

 

@amitchandak @Fowmy  @Anonymous @daxer-almighty  
Please help!

Thanks.

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Tanushree_Kapse , Try like

 

No. of months= MONTH(Maxx(allselected(Table), Table[Date]))

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selimovd
Super User
Super User

Hey @Tanushree_Kapse ,

 

if you want to return that as a measure, the following code should do it.

No of month measure =
VAR vLatestDate =
    CALCULATE(
        MAX( Table[Date] ),
        ALL( Table[Date] )
    )
VAR vCurrentDate =
    MAX( Table[Date] )
VAR vDiff =
    DATEDIFF(
        vCurrentDate,
        vLatestDate,
        MONTH
    )
RETURN
    vDiff

 

 

If you want that as a calculated column, this should do it:

No of month column =
VAR vLatestDate = MAX(Table[Date])
VAR vCurrentDate = Table[Date]
VAR vDiff =
    DATEDIFF(
        vCurrentDate,
        vLatestDate,
        MONTH
    )
RETURN
    vDiff

 

If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍
 
Best regards
Denis
 

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Anonymous
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I am not sure if I understand your problem statement correctly, but the error you are getting because the [SlicerDate] Column is actually not the Date type column but a text column.

 

Try doing this:

SlicerDate= IF(Table[Date]= MAX(Table[Date]),Table[Date])

 
selimovd
Super User
Super User

Hey @Tanushree_Kapse ,

 

if you want to return that as a measure, the following code should do it.

No of month measure =
VAR vLatestDate =
    CALCULATE(
        MAX( Table[Date] ),
        ALL( Table[Date] )
    )
VAR vCurrentDate =
    MAX( Table[Date] )
VAR vDiff =
    DATEDIFF(
        vCurrentDate,
        vLatestDate,
        MONTH
    )
RETURN
    vDiff

 

 

If you want that as a calculated column, this should do it:

No of month column =
VAR vLatestDate = MAX(Table[Date])
VAR vCurrentDate = Table[Date]
VAR vDiff =
    DATEDIFF(
        vCurrentDate,
        vLatestDate,
        MONTH
    )
RETURN
    vDiff

 

If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍
 
Best regards
Denis
 
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Tanushree_Kapse , Try like

 

No. of months= MONTH(Maxx(allselected(Table), Table[Date]))

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Thankyou @amitchandak , that helped!

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