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Return Previous Month's Sales based on whether item is promoted during current month

Hi all,

 

I am trying to create a measure to return previous month's sales for an item that is on promotion during the current month. I created a dummy data set below that illustrates what I am trying to achieve. The promotion column indicates 0 if it is not on promotion and 1 if it is on Promotion. 

 

ItemDatePromotion IndicatorSales
TV 12/1/20200$50
TV 12/2/20200$100
TV 12/3/20200$80
TV 13/1/20201$150
TV 13/2/20201$200
TV 13/3/20201$175
TV 22/1/20201$120
TV 22/2/20201$130
TV 22/3/20201$115
TV 23/1/20200$70
TV 23/2/20200$50
TV 23/3/20200$60

 

Desired Result:

 Slicer:March
   
ItemPromotion SalesPrevious Period Sales
TV 1$525$230

 

The main challenge is that if I create a calculate function that filters on the promotion indicator, I end up with something like this (which is not desireable):

 Slicer:March
   
ItemPromotion SalesPrevious Period Sales
TV 1$525$0
TV 2$0$365

 

Current dax:

Previous Period Sales = calculate(sum(Sales), Promotion Indicator = 1, previousmonth (date))

 

Thank you so much for your help!

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Anonymous
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Your measure must be:

PP Sales =
if( salectedvalue( T[Promotion Indicator] ) = 1,
	CALCULATE(
		sum( Sales[Amount] ),
		PREVIOUSMONTH( Calendar[Date] )
	)
)


Best
D

Greg_Deckler
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Generally need a separte date table to get time intelligence functions to actually work properly. 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...



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Thanks for the reply. In my actual pbix I do have a separate date table that is used for filtering. For simplicity, I didn't indicate it above. Yet, the date system doesn't seem to be the problem.

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