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mark_carlisle
Advocate IV
Advocate IV

Date What If Parameter

I've created 3 What If parameters Date - Year, Date - Month, and Date - Day.

 

I have a two measures already to calculate the total cases pre and post a date, these are;

 

 

Total Cases (Post 16/03) = 
CALCULATE (
    [Total Cases (Distinct)],
    ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
    FILTER ( 'Calendar', 'Calendar'[Date] >= DATE ( 2020, 03, 16 ) )
)
Total Cases (Pre 16/03) = 
CALCULATE (
    [Total Cases (Distinct)],
    ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
    FILTER (
        'Calendar',
        AND (
            'Calendar'[Date] >= DATE ( 2020, 01, 01 ),
            'Calendar'[Date] < DATE ( 2020, 03, 16 )
        )
    )
)

 

 

What I wanted to do was replace the hardcoded date with the values from the What If parameters so the users can move this date, so if we take Total Cases (Pre 16/03) I've done this;

 

 

Total Cases (Pre 16/03) = 
CALCULATE (
    [Total Cases(Distinct)],
    ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
    FILTER (
        'Calendar',
        AND (
            'Calendar'[Date] >= DATE ( 2020, 01, 01 ),
            'Calendar'[Date] < DATE ( [Date - Year Value], [Date - Month Value], [Date - Day Value] )
        )
    )
)

 

 

This returns nothing and when troubleshooting its the parameters causing the issue as it returns a blank calendar table.

 

Is what I want to do possible?

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

Try:

 

Total Cases (Pre 16/03) = 
VAR __Year = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Year Value])
VAR __Month = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Month Value])
VAR __Day = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Day Value])
CALCULATE (
    [Total Cases(Distinct)],
    ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
    FILTER (
        'Calendar',
        AND (
            'Calendar'[Date] >= DATE ( 2020, 01, 01 ),
            'Calendar'[Date] < DATE ( __Year, __Month, __Day )
        )
    )
)


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mark_carlisle
Advocate IV
Advocate IV

Tried the same thing earlier and it didn't work, but tried yours anyway and then realised it was because I didn't have the Sync Slicers option set correctly!

 

Thanks for the help.

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

Try:

 

Total Cases (Pre 16/03) = 
VAR __Year = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Year Value])
VAR __Month = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Month Value])
VAR __Day = SELECTEDVALUE([Date - Day Value])
CALCULATE (
    [Total Cases(Distinct)],
    ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
    FILTER (
        'Calendar',
        AND (
            'Calendar'[Date] >= DATE ( 2020, 01, 01 ),
            'Calendar'[Date] < DATE ( __Year, __Month, __Day )
        )
    )
)


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