Calendar Relationships not showing correctly on Bar/Line combo chart

[Mezzoshadee]

Hi All,

I have created a project calendar table for 2021-2028. I have linked date data across multiple tables to this project calendar in order to create visuals that can hopefully plot onto this project calendar. I am having issues where these linked tables have dates that go into 2027 (refer to Forecast data below) however my graph will only show data up to 2024. I cannot work out what is going wrong here and would appreciate some help! i have made sure that all the tables have the same date type data and same format across tables.

Ideally  should be seeing line y-axis data for the month in 2027. Bar y-axis data seems to be correctly shown.

[amitchandak]

@Mezzoshadee , I see all joined to the calendar are inactive . And Joining with DCN is 1-1 bi-direction. 

Make Join with DCN with Forecast and 1- M and you need to have an active join or make sure it works when using userelationship.

Can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.

[Mezzoshadee]

@amitchandak  simplistically, if i had a calendar table which i wanted as the x-axis for a column/line visual and a table with 3 columns per below:

DCN No.	Forecast Date	Submitted Date
DCN1	1/1/24	1/2/24
DCN2	1/1/24	1/3/24
DCN3	3/2/25	3/3/26
DCN4	5/4/24	1/4/24

How do you link the 2 date columns to the Calendar table? at least 1 relationship will become inactive won't it? I understand Power BI does not allow multiple active relationsthips between tables.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mezzoshadee 

Yes, your understanding is correct. To make calculations based on different date columns which is joined by an inactive relationship, you can use measures with USERELATIONSHIP function. This function can activate an inactive relationship and ingore the active relationship when evaluating a measure. 

For example, 

Count of Forecast = calculate(count('Table'[Issued to Forecast]),userelationship('Table'[Issued to Forecast], 'Calendar Table'[Date]))

Add above measure to y-axis on the chart. 

Reference: Using USERELATIONSHIP in DAX - SQLBI

Best Regards,
Jing
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[Mezzoshadee]

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I've done some googling and it looks like you can't have multiple active relatiosnips between tables. What is the best way to link mutliple columns of date data across tables to the project Calendar table typically? I have attempted to put all relelvant date data into one table however then i have the issue of multiple inactive relationships which it sounds like i need to avoid. If i split date data out across multiple tables and have the DCNs connected as the data which relates tables i then get an Ambiguous Error between relationships and the Calendar table.