Time Intelligence: "Nested DAX" gives me strange result (vs Two measures)

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

I have this doubt. I am using time intelligence and I did a task of getting the porcentual increase comparing the same period of the last year in two ways:

1. I create a new measure called "Utilidad" año Anterior: 

     Utilidad Año Anterior = CALCULATE(sum(Ventas[Utilidad]),SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('DAX Calendario 3'[Fecha]))

    Then, I create the division to get the porcentual difference:  

     Crecimiento Utilidad = DIVIDE(SUM(Ventas[Utilidad]),[Utilidad Año Anterior])-1

2. I made a "nested" function with VAR:

    Crecimiento Utilidad Periodo Anterior =

      VAR Utilidad = SUM(Ventas[Utilidad])

      VAR UtilidadPeriodoAnterior = CALCULATE(Utilidad, SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('DAX Calendario 3'[Fecha]))

      RETURN DIVIDE(Utilidad,UtilidadPeriodoAnterior,"N.A.")-1

But I got two differents results:

 I'd really appreciate if anyone can give an explanation why the second DAX didn't work

Thanks in advance!

ps: Finally, is there a way to avoid -100% in the first formula?

[v-yanjiang-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

According to your description, your error is because the “<alternateresult> ” in the DIVIDE function should be a number but not text. Here’s my solution.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ kalyj

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[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , POwer bi return blank when there is not data, but blank -1 = -1 , it not like null  in database

In the second one try like

RETURN DIVIDE(Utilidad,UtilidadPeriodoAnterior,0)-1

I doubt the text creating a problem