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Anonymous
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Dax firstdate with slicer

Hello,

 

I'm having trouble using a date slicer in conjunction with a firstdate expression.

 

Start Date = firstdate ( table [date] ]

)

 

This gives me the results I expect in my matrix. However, I want to use a slicer from my date table to filter my matrix by year. This is not possible as it appears that any year I slice by then becomes the first date.

 

Any suggestion?

 

Thanks

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous , Try a measure like

measure =
var _min = minx(allselected(Table), table [date])
return
calculate(countrows(Table), filter(Table, Table[Start Date] =_min))

 

But it is better that table come from Date or different Table

measure =
var _min = minx(allselected(date), date [date])
return
calculate(countrows(Table), filter(Table, Table[Start Date] =_min))

 

Anonymous
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Thanks for the reply but that did not work.

 

To clarify - my measure works as intended but when I try to slice using my date table all of my start years take on the value of the slicer year. I presume the slicer is filtering my table so that a new start year is shown.

 

I want to be able to get the min date of the table. Once I have the min date, I want to use a slicer to select only the rows that contain that min date. 

 

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