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I'm trying to calculate the sales for the previous year in Power BI using DAX formulas, but all the formulas that I've tried are giving me blank values. I wanted to calculate the growth but I realized just the previous year, already give me empty values.
Sales Previous Year = CALCULATE([Total Sales], SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(raw[Inv. Date]))
Sales Previous Year = CALCULATE([Total Sales], FILTER(raw, raw[Year] = MAX(raw[Year])-1 && raw[Quarter] = MAX(raw[Quarter]) && raw[Month] = MAX(raw[Month])))
Sales Previous Year = CALCULATE([Total Sales], DATEADD(raw[Inv. Date], -1, YEAR))
Sales Previous Year = CALCULATE([Total Sales], PREVIOUSYEAR(raw[Inv. Date]))
% Change =
VAR CurrentValue = raw[Total Sales]
VAR PREviousValue =
SWITCH(
TRUE(),
ISINSCOPE(raw[Inv. Date].[Date]),
CALCULATE([Total Sales],
DATEADD(raw[Inv. Date], -1, DAY)
),
ISINSCOPE(raw[Inv. Date].[Monat]),
CALCULATE([Total Sales],
PARALLELPERIOD(raw[Inv. Date], -1, YEAR)
),
ISINSCOPE(raw[Inv. Date].[Quartal]),
CALCULATE([Total Sales],
PARALLELPERIOD(raw[Inv. Date], -1, YEAR)
),
ISINSCOPE(raw[Inv. Date].[Jahr]),
CALCULATE([Total Sales],
DATEADD(raw[Inv. Date], -1, YEAR)
)
)
RETURN
IF(PREviousValue = 0, BLANK(), DIVIDE(CurrentValue - PREviousValue, PREviousValue))
What I wanted to see is for instance for 2022 Qrts 2 - 3754.62.
However, all these formulas return blank values, even though there is data available for the previous year.
Also the date is correcly transformed.
Following other post, I could not find the solution for my problem.
Can anyone suggest what might be causing this issue and how I can fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi @Power_steffi ,
I think you can try ALL() function in your calculation. Your measure should look like as below.
Sales Previous Year =
CALCULATE (
[Total Sales],
FILTER (
ALL ( raw ),
raw[Year]
= MAX ( raw[Year] ) - 1
&& raw[Quarter] = MAX ( raw[Quarter] )
&& raw[Month] = MAX ( raw[Month] )
)
)
Best Regards,
Rico Zhou
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