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ChrisCollao
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Calendar table with "outdated" months

Hi everyone,

 

Sorry if the subject is not correctly explained, but, basically I would like to ask if there is a way to create a calendar table, where I can add a month column, but, with the conditions that every month is from 26 to 25, instead of 1 to 30.

 

Explaining this with an example: june must be from may 26th to june 25th. And this for each month.

 

  Month   Date range 
  jan  dec-26 to jan-25  
  feb  jan-26 to feb-25  
  mar  feb-26 to mar-25  
  ...  ...

 

This is to let users filter by month, but with the date ranges ready.

 

Do you have any ideas?

 

Thanks a lot.

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harshnathani
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @ChrisCollao ,

 

 

I assume you have a Date Table

 

Create a Calculate Column

 

 

New Month = IF (DAY(Dates[Date]) > 25, MONTH(Dates[Date]) + 1, Month(Dates[Date]))

 

 

Create the second Column for Month Names

 

 

Month Name = 
VAR n = Dates[New Month]

RETURN  


    IF(
        n > 0 && n < 13 ,
        -- THEN --
        FORMAT(DATE(YEAR(Dates[Date]), n , DAY(Dates[Date]) ) , "MMM") ,
        -- ELSE --
        "Other"
        )

 

 


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Harsh Nathani


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ChrisCollao
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Thank you all for the solutions. They were all right. But I accepted the more simple and efficient for my case.

 

Best regards to all of you and thanks for the support.

harshnathani
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @ChrisCollao ,

 

 

I assume you have a Date Table

 

Create a Calculate Column

 

 

New Month = IF (DAY(Dates[Date]) > 25, MONTH(Dates[Date]) + 1, Month(Dates[Date]))

 

 

Create the second Column for Month Names

 

 

Month Name = 
VAR n = Dates[New Month]

RETURN  


    IF(
        n > 0 && n < 13 ,
        -- THEN --
        FORMAT(DATE(YEAR(Dates[Date]), n , DAY(Dates[Date]) ) , "MMM") ,
        -- ELSE --
        "Other"
        )

 

 


Regards,

Harsh Nathani


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@ChrisCollao already great solutions are provided but I will take a different approach and use less known/used DAX function

 

add a new column in your table

 

Custom Month = 
VAR __newMonth = IF ( 
DAY ( 'Date'[Date] ) >= 26, EOMONTH ( 'Date'[Date], 1 ), 'Date'[Date] )
RETURN
FORMAT ( __newMonth, "MMM, YYYY" )

 

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Greg_Deckler
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@ChrisCollao - Perhaps try something along the lines of this:

Month = 
    VAR __Months = 
        {
            ("jan",1),("feb",2),("mar",3),("apr",4),("may",5),("jun",6),("jul",7),("aug",8),("sep",9),("oct",10),("nov",11),("dec",12)
        }
    VAR __Month = MONTH([Date])
    VAR __Day = DAY([Date])
    VAR __ReturnMonth = 
        SWITCH(TRUE(),
            __Day >=26 && __Month = 12,1,
            __Day >= 26,__Month+1,
            __Month
        )
RETURN
    MAXX(FILTER(__Months,[Value2]=__ReturnMonth),[Value1])


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