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pconnon
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7 years ago
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Calculate FIXED months between two dates

I'm trying to calculate a count of months between date slicer dates to used it as a denomitar in order to calculate an average based on all periods for all customers.    The idea is to calculate th...
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    pconnon
    7 years ago

    I tried this solution, but the problem was that when I use the result on a table with all my customers this value was reevaluated for each customer with only the dates on which the sales where made and I needed a fixed value.

     

    What I did was to create a new table CALENDAR

     

    Calendar = CALENDAR( DATE(2015;01;01) ; DATE(2020;01;01))

     

    and use these values on the slicer instead of the sales dates. With these changes I was able to calculate a sales frequency for each customer on a fixed period.

     

    thanks! 

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v-piga-msft
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7 years ago

Hi @@pconno,

As Greg_Deckler suggested, you could calculate the a count of months between date slicer dates use DATEDIFF of the MAX and MIN of your slicer like below.

 

If you have solved your problem, please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

 

If you still need help, please share some data sample and your desired output so that we could help further on it.

 

Best  Regards,

Cherry

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    pconnon
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    I tried this solution, but the problem was that when I use the result on a table with all my customers this value was reevaluated for each customer with only the dates on which the sales where made and I needed a fixed value.

     

    What I did was to create a new table CALENDAR

     

    Calendar = CALENDAR( DATE(2015;01;01) ; DATE(2020;01;01))

     

    and use these values on the slicer instead of the sales dates. With these changes I was able to calculate a sales frequency for each customer on a fixed period.

     

    thanks!