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Comparison- current month vs previous month
Sure there is a way! :-)
You can use DAX to creat the appropriate measures to show in your matrix. See some example here: https://powerbi.tips/2016/07/measures-month-to-month-percent-change/.
But first you need to make sure the Date column is of Date data type - you need this in order to use Time Intelligence functions in DAX and to allow Power BI to deal with time hierarchy.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Pawel
OK, try out this .pbix file and see if the approach used inside fits your need: http://blog.sqlgeek.pl/Download/DAX - Month over Month.pbix.
I used the same DAX function mentioned in the article (PREVIOUSMONTH). And presence of the regions in your data doesn't change much.
Cheers,
Pawel
- Instead of PREVIOUSYEAR use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR function.
OK, try out this .pbix file and see if the approach used inside fits your need: http://blog.sqlgeek.pl/Download/DAX - Month over Month.pbix.
I used the same DAX function mentioned in the article (PREVIOUSMONTH). And presence of the regions in your data doesn't change much.
Cheers,
Pawel
Anonymous
Thanks....It works...I have another question as well...how about if i wanna compare current month with last year month. Is there anyway to do that. I had tried the similar step.
Belows are the measurea:
Revenue LYM = CALCULATE([Revenue CM],PREVIOUSYEAR(Data[Date]))
Revenue CMvLLYM = [Revenue CM]-[Revenue LYM]
However it doesn't work. Can you see the problem?
- Instead of PREVIOUSYEAR use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR function.
How do we have these formulas fetch the prevous month, that falls before the filtered date range (ie: date slicer)?
