Having issues with YTD through a DAX measure

[HasanRehman]

Hi all, 

I'm trying to caculating YTD through a DAX measure and not gettng the results I expected. My data source is a SharePoint list that has a title for a month, the start date for that month, Period Goal and Period Actual. I want to calculate the YTD Goal and YTD Actuals so I created a measure with this formula for the YTD Actuals: YTDExample = TOTALYTD(SUM('Test'[Period Actual]),'Test'[Date])

When I see this in Power BI as a table, the YTD doesn't seem to calculate the YTD Actuals - it simply just displays the same as Period Actual:

To make matters worse, if I remove the title from the table, it sums it for 2 months - March and October - no clue why:

What I'm expecting to see (when I do this in DAX studio) is:

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Please help! Thanks in advance!

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@HasanRehman You may find this helpful - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/To-bleep-With-Time-Intelligence/ba-p/1260000

Also, see if my Time Intelligence the Hard Way provides a different way of accomplishing what you are going for.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Time-Intelligence-quot-The-Hard-Way-quot-TIT...

[HasanRehman]

Thanks a lot, that's a whole lot of info. I'll review and let you know if this fixed my issue. 

Edit -- that was it!!! I just need to watch the video to understand why, but thank you so much! 🙂