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First day of current month but in the previous year

‎05-28-2021 03:50 PM

Hi,

 

Looking to calculate the first day of the current month but in the previous year in a dax measure. So if ran today it would give me 5/1/2020.

 

Thanks in advanced

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OwenAuger
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‎05-28-2021 05:04 PM

Hi @Anonymous 

If you have a 'Date' table and you're wanting to create a date filter, you can write this:

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( STARTOFMONTH ( TREATAS ( { TODAY () }, 'Date'[Date] ) ) )

 If you instead need the date as a scalar, you could write something like this:

EOMONTH ( TODAY(), -13 ) + 1

 

Regards,

Owen


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CNENFRNL
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‎05-29-2021 05:08 AM

Time intelligence functions and time functions are totoally different,

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Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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OwenAuger
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‎05-28-2021 05:04 PM

Hi @Anonymous 

If you have a 'Date' table and you're wanting to create a date filter, you can write this:

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( STARTOFMONTH ( TREATAS ( { TODAY () }, 'Date'[Date] ) ) )

 If you instead need the date as a scalar, you could write something like this:

EOMONTH ( TODAY(), -13 ) + 1

 

Regards,

Owen


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‎05-31-2021 03:39 PM

Thank you! Just what I needed as I needed the date as a scalar. 

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