Current vs Previous Quarter Sales

[Jos13]

Hi All,

I have the following tables

Table : Sales

Table: Employee

There exists a 1 to many relationship from Employee to Sales.

I want to display current vs previous quarter sales by employee in a table visual.

When nothing is selected in Quarter slicer, CQ Sales should show sales for 2021 Q4. But it is not working. Measure PQ Sales should display the previous quarter sales for the corresponding employee.

I have written the measures as follows

Please help me to fix this

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jos13 ,

To achieve this, you need to create a new seperate calculated table.

Quarter = DISTINCT('Sales'[Quarter])

The quarter table has no relationship with the main table.

In the sales table, I have expanded some data to increase the situation in different years.

Create two measures

CQ Sales = var _cq=SELECTEDVALUE('Quarter'[Quarter])
return CALCULATE(SUM('Sales'[Sales]),FILTER('Sales',[Quarter]=_cq))

PQ Sales = var _cq=SELECTEDVALUE('Quarter'[Quarter])
var _pq=IF(VALUE(RIGHT(_cq,1))=1,VALUE(LEFT(_cq,4))-1&" Q4",LEFT(_cq,4)&" Q"&VALUE(RIGHT(_cq,1))-1)
RETURN CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales]),FILTER('Sales',[Quarter]=_pq))

Here's the results.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[ValtteriN]

Hi,

You can use QUARTER and PREVIOUSQUARTER functions here.

My test data:

Functions:

Current Quarter = CALCULATE(SUM('Quarter calculations'[Value]),QUARTER('Quarter calculations'[Date]))

Previous Quarter = CALCULATE(SUM('Quarter calculations'[Value]),PREVIOUSQUARTER('Calendar'[Date]))

Additional notes:
I had a one-to-many relationship  between my 'test data'[date] and 'calendar'[date].
IF you don't have a date column you can construct one from your 'Sales'[Quarter] by using this DAX:

Date from Quarter =

var _quarter = RIGHT('Quarter calculations'[Quarter (different format)],1) return

DATE(LEFT('Quarter calculations'[Quarter (different format)],4),

Switch(_quarter,"1",3,

"2",6,

"3",9,

"4",12),1)

Hopefully htis helps and if it does please accept this as a solution.