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You will see that there is a quarter selection on dashboard:
This selection comes from an excel file, however it is not great because users sometimes forget to update this excel file.
Instead of that, can we create a table which is dynamically filled with quarters and replace that excel selection?
New table should include quarters from last 5 years until current quarter.
The dashboard should always select current quarter automatically.
how can I please do this
@Nihed , You need to create column like this in your date table and save that in This Qtr
Switch( True() ,
format(today(), "YYYY - \QQ") = [Qtr Year] , "This Qtr",
[Qtr Year]
)
Default Date Today/ This Month / This Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfn05preQYA
thank you for your answer
just for information I don’t have a date table in my report I use an EXCEL file with this data and I wanted to create this data in a direct dynamic table to have "QUARTER SELECTION " in Power BI how I can do please?
the data of the execel file:
Hi, @Nihed
You can try following code to manually create a calendar table to replace data in EXCEL file.
Calendar date = CALENDAR(DATE(2017,01,01),TODAY()) //calculated table
calculated columns:
Quarter = FORMAT('Calendar date'[Date],"YYYYQ")
Num quarter =
VAR _year =
YEAR ( TODAY () )
VAR _quarter =
QUARTER ( TODAY () )
VAR _last_quarter =
IF ( _quarter = 1, _year - 1 & "4", _year & _quarter - 1 )
RETURN
IF (
'Calendar date'[New quarter] = _last_quarter,
"last quarter",
'Calendar date'[New quarter]
)
Due to the use of calculated table, you still need to refresh the calendar table to get the latest data.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
Hello,
It works very well I did exactly the same thing, thank you very much for your help
Thank you.
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