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Understanding the differences between two time-intelligence expressions relative to Visual
I'm working on some time intliegence analysis. So I reviewed the Italian's article on the subject. Prior to reviewing their article I had managed to write my own expression for YTD. I then applied...
So my intution was correct, its the lack of date context supplied by the Card that causes the issue.
My understanding was that it is generally bad form to nest Calculates within Calculates?
My intution is that the biggest drawback to sticking with my original measure as compared to the DAX pattern based measure is likely performance, more than anything?
Nothing wrong with nesting calculate, won't affect performance.
The built in date intelligence functions are syntax sugar, you can achieve more versatililty and same performance with a custom one