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ValeriaBreve
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4 years ago
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Issue with measure

Hello, I have a PowerBI report which is quite simple: 1 transactional table + a date table. The transactional table has data since June 2022 - the date table has dates since 1/1/2022. The 2 are con...
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    johnt75
    4 years ago

    I don't know what is going on with the calculated column, but you can get the daily figures by amending your calculation item to be

    VAR numDaysBefore =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Days Before Today'[Days Before Today] )
VAR numDaysAfter =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Days After Today'[Days After Today] )
VAR baseDate =
    TODAY ()
VAR startDate = baseDate - numDaysBefore
VAR endDate = baseDate + numDaysAfter
VAR datesToUse = DATESBETWEEN (
            DateTable[Date],
            startDate,
            endDate
        )
VAR selectedDate = SELECTEDVALUE( DateTable[Date])
RETURN
	IF(
		selectedDate IN datesToUse,
		CALCULATE(
			SELECTEDMEASURE(),
			KEEPFILTERS( datesToUse )
		)
	)
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johnt75
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4 years ago

That's really interesting. I didn't know that option existed, but I'm going to start using it so that I don't have to manually go through and turn off the implicit measures. Thanks for the update.