Use a date slicer to dynamically filter last know value for a given listing

[cocohoney]

Hi,

I am currently struggling trying to set up a HR positions listing.

My entry data is the HR listing displaying for each employee, all their positions held and for each position held their starting date (and ending date if applies) :

EmployeeID	LASTNAME	FIRSTNAME	STARTING DATE POSITION	ENDING DATE POSITION	SITE	DPT NAME	POSITION NAME	POSITION LEVEL
1	SMITH	Paul	01/01/2019	28/02/2022	PARIS	CallCenter	Operator	4
1	SMITH	Paul	01/03/2022		PARIS	CallCenter	Supervisor	6
2	ADAM	John	01/01/2019	28/02/2019	LYON	Telecom Center	Junior Assistant	3
2	ADAM	John	01/03/2019	28/03/2019	LYON	Telecom Center	Assistant	4
2	ADAM	John	29/03/2019	31/03/2019	LYON	Telecom Center	Senior Assistant	5
2	ADAM	John	01/04/2019	31/05/2023	PARIS	Telecom Center	Manager	7
5	CLARK	Kent	01/01/2019	28/02/2022	BREST	Financial Direction	Accountant	6
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/01/2019	30/09/2020	TOULOUSE	HR Department	Secretary	5
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/10/2020	28/02/2022	PARIS	CallCenter	Supervisor	6
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/03/2022	28/02/2023	TOULOUSE	HR Department	Manager	7
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/03/2023		TOULOUSE	HR Department	Director	8

The end goal is to have the last position held by all employees at a given date.

I managed to do the following :

• Add a DAX Column in my HRListing table that gives me for each entry the last starting position date 

LastPositionDate =

var currentID = 'HRListing'[EmployeeID]

var result = CALCULATE (
LASTDATE( 'HRListing'[STARTING DATE POSITION]),
ALL(),
'HRListing'[EmployeeID] = currentID
)

return result

• Create a DAX table filtering on that last position date

HRListingLastPosition = FILTER (
'HRListing',
'HRListing'[STARTING DATE POSITION] = 'HRListing'[LastPositionDate]
)

This is actually working as it is giving my the last uptodate HRListing with the last position held by employees :

EmployeeID	LASTNAME	FIRSTNAME	STARTING DATE POSITION	ENDING DATE POSITION	SITE	DPT NAME	POSITION NAME	POSITION LEVEL
1	SMITH	Paul	01/03/2022		PARIS	CallCenter	Supervisor	6
2	ADAM	John	01/04/2019	31/05/2023	PARIS	Telecom Center	Manager	7
5	CLARK	Kent	01/01/2019	28/02/2022	BREST	Financial Direction	Accountant	6
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/03/2023		TOULOUSE	HR Department	Director	8

But what I am actually trying to do is to incorporate a date slicer in my visual where I can set a date and get the last uptodate HR listing for that current date.

For exemple :

This specific slicer would give me the "screenshot" of the last held position of all employees for this specific date. What I want with such a slicer is this result :

EmployeeID	LASTNAME	FIRSTNAME	STARTING DATE POSITION	ENDING DATE POSITION	SITE	DPT NAME	POSITION NAME	POSITION LEVEL
1	SMITH	Paul	01/01/2019	28/02/2022	PARIS	CallCenter	Operator	4
2	ADAM	John	01/04/2019	31/05/2023	PARIS	Telecom Center	Manager	7
5	CLARK	Kent	01/01/2019	28/02/2022	BREST	Financial Direction	Accountant	6
10	PARKER	Lisa	01/10/2020	28/02/2022	PARIS	CallCenter	Supervisor	6

I tried playing with a slicer with both dates from the HRListing table and the DAX created HRListingLastPosition table but this is not giving me the expected result

Any ideas on how to achieve such a thing ?

Thank you very much

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

But what I am actually trying to do is to incorporate a date slicer 

That slicer must be fed from a disconnected table and then you need to use a measure to read the slicer value and to compute the status for each employee..

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @cocohoney ,

I create a table as you mentioned and I also create a Date table.

Date = CALENDAR(MIN('Table'[STARTING DATE POSITION]),MAX('Table'[ENDING DATE POSITION]))

Then I create a calculated column and here is the dax code.

LastPositionDate =
VAR currentID = 'Table'[EmployeeID]
VAR selectedDate =
    MAX ( 'Date'[Date] )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        LASTDATE ( 'Table'[STARTING DATE POSITION] ),
        FILTER (
            ALL ( 'Table' ),
            'Table'[EmployeeID] = currentID
                && 'Table'[STARTING DATE POSITION] <= selectedDate
        )
    )

Next I create a new table.

HRListingLastPosition = 
FILTER(
    'Table',
    'Table'[STARTING DATE POSITION] = 'Table'[LastPositionDate]
)

Finally you will get what you want.

Best Regards

Yilong Zhou

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[cocohoney]

Thank you so much for your help. I had posted my problem twice as my posts were flagged as spams and you gave me a different implementation so thank you for that.

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

But what I am actually trying to do is to incorporate a date slicer 

That slicer must be fed from a disconnected table and then you need to use a measure to read the slicer value and to compute the status for each employee..