Using TODAY() In Historical Visuals

[taylorb]

This is probably a very simple solution. I have a card for daily count that uses Today() but I also want to see the historical trend. I obviously cannot use Today() since it will only show today. What could I use instead to show the count on each calendar date? Currently, there is not a relationship between the Calendar table and the data table, because I only have the start and end dates so I dont want my filter to only include records that started or ended on that date. 

My Current measure:

CALCULATE(
    DISTINCTCOUNT(Assignments[ASSIGNMENT_ID]), 
    Filter(Assignments, 
    ([ASSIGNMENT_CURRENT_STATUS_NAME] = "Cleared to Start"  || ([ASSIGNMENT_CURRENT_STATUS_NAME] = "Cancelled" && Assignments[WAS_NEVER_STARTED] = false)) &&
    TODAY() >= 'Assignments'[START_DATE] && 
    TODAY() <= 'Assignments'[END_DATE] &&
    Assignments[JOB_POSITION_TYPE_NAME] = "Travel"
    ))

[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@taylorb , you can use userelation and crossfilter to deal with this

refer

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/HR-Analytics-Active-Employee-Hire-and-Termination-tr...

https://radacad.com/userelationship-or-role-playing-dimension-dealing-with-inactive-relationships-in...

Also, refer to this video how to take trend using a disconnected table

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duMSovyosXE

[taylorb]

I didnt know that you can use inactive relationships like that. Thanks so much

[nandic]

@taylorb ,
Is there a way to add new column which will represent actual date of reporting?
Example: today is 8/10/2020, tomorrow for all new rows it will be 8/11/2020, etc. 
In this case you would compare start/end date with this columns (this column will substitute functino Today() so that it can be dynamic).