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Anonymous
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Creating a date table starting in October

Hi i'm slightly confused. My sales data starts in October however power bi automatically orders the dates from the next january. is it posible/how would i be able to make a date table starting from october to enable me to measure month on month sales.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated. 

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v-jingzhang
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

You can add a fiscal month column to Date table. Then sort Calendar Month column by Fiscal Month column. In this article Sorting Data by Fiscal Year in Power BI, it creates a date table whose fiscal year starts in April. You can modify it to October accordingly. 

 

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v-jingzhang
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

You can add a fiscal month column to Date table. Then sort Calendar Month column by Fiscal Month column. In this article Sorting Data by Fiscal Year in Power BI, it creates a date table whose fiscal year starts in April. You can modify it to October accordingly. 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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VahidDM
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

Check this link:

https://www.vahiddm.com/post/creating-calendar-table-with-3-steps

 

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