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I have created the below measure for Current survey percentage.
I assume I need to use CALCULATE for the Previous Survey Result measure. I tried to use DATEADD with CALCULATE to get the desired result, but because the surveys are all on arbitary dates this doesn't work.
Can anyone help
Current survey percentage
current_percentage =
You can try the following measure
Previous Survey Percentage =
VAR CurrentSurveyDate = MAX('Results_Consolidated'[survey_date])
VAR PreviousSurveyDate =
CALCULATE(
MAX('Results_Consolidated'[survey_date]),
FILTER( 'Results_Consolidated', 'Results_Consolidated'[survey_date] < CurrentSurveyDate ) )
RETURN
IF(
ISBLANK(PreviousSurveyDate),
BLANK(),
VAR TotalPercentage =
SUMX (
SUMMARIZE (
'Results_Consolidated',
'Results_Consolidated'[question_shortened],
'Results_Consolidated'[question_category],
'Results_Consolidated'[percentage],
'Results_Consolidated'[survey_date],
'Results_Consolidated'[demographic_category],
'Results_Consolidated'[demographic_subcategory],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text_groups],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text_subgroups] ), [percentage] )
VAR PreviousTotalPercentage =
CALCULATE(
SUMX (
SUMMARIZE (
'Results_Consolidated',
'Results_Consolidated'[question_shortened],
'Results_Consolidated'[question_category],
'Results_Consolidated'[percentage],
'Results_Consolidated'[survey_date],
'Results_Consolidated'[demographic_category],
'Results_Consolidated'[demographic_subcategory],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text_groups],
'Response Hierarchy'[response_text_subgroups] ), [percentage] ),
FILTER( ALL('Results_Consolidated'),
'Results_Consolidated'[survey_date] = PreviousSurveyDate ) )
RETURN
IF(
ISBLANK(PreviousTotalPercentage),
BLANK(),
FORMAT(PreviousTotalPercentage, "0.0%")
)
)
Thank you very much, unfortunatly though it just displays blanks.