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amiller5
4 years agoHelper II
Calculating the difference in days between two dates
I have a start date calculated as a measure and I am wanting to subtract it from "Today()" date. See image below, the first line item has a start date of 4/21/2022 and the Age (days) is 4,734 [Today'...
- 4 years ago
Use datediff instead
DATEDIFF('table'[start date], today(), days) - 4 years ago
There's a start of month function you might be able to use!
STARTOFMONTH function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs
amiller5
4 years agoHelper II
Ok - so I created this Date Key
And I have the following formula:
Age (Days) = DATEDIFF('Service 4 - Contract accts'[Start date],STARTOFMONTH('Date key'[Date]),DAY)
but now my days in the able for the example is (-)
amiller5
4 years agoHelper II
I was able to get the correct days to flow through by ONLY putting the month I am referencing in the Date key. Is there anyway to put all months in the key and point to the current month? to eliminate having to refresh that date every time?