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Anonymous
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3 years ago

How to use different measures based on selected date range

Good Day   I have been struggling for weeks now. I need help please on using dax, I have 4 measures one for each quarter in the year. I am struggling to figure out how can One use the a certian mea...
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tt_and
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3 years ago

Hi. I assume you have a date table that's used for slicing on dates. If you add a column to the date table defining each period on each date row, you can use this with a switch in a base measure.

 

 

Base measure = 
switch(
    calendar[Period],
    1, [Measure1],
    2, [Measure2],
    3, [Measure3],
    4, [Measure4]
)

 

 

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ferial_coder
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

Building on the approach proposed by tt_and, you can also create a measure. The trick is to utilize a vartual table within the measure to generate the total of all the different measures you are switching between. 

 

Base measure =
VAR __table1 =
    ADDCOLUMNS (
        calendar,
        "@composite_measure",
            SWITCH (
                calendar[Period],
                1, [Measure1],
                2, [Measure2],
                3, [Measure3],
                4, [Measure4]
            )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX ( __table1, [@composite_measure] )