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Anonymous

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6 years ago

Creating DAX measures for current and previous calendar month

I'm having trouble with this! I have a measure to Count unique Invoices where the invoice status is "Submitted". I need this measure for the current reporting month and the previous reporting mo...

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v-joesh-msft

Solution Sage

6 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

If you only want to calculate the counts of "current month", "last month", "last before month " by using the Dax, you could try the formula below.

Claims Last Month =
VAR current_month =
    MONTH ( TODAY () )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'DataMart'[Invoice Id] ),
        FILTER (
            'DataMart',
            'DataMart'[Invoice Status] = "SUBMITTED"
                && MONTH ( 'DataMart'[Invoice Date] ) = current_month - 1
        )
    )

Claims Last Before Month =
VAR current_month =
    MONTH ( TODAY () )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'DataMart'[Invoice Id] ),
        FILTER (
            'DataMart',
            'DataMart'[Invoice Status] = "SUBMITTED"
                && MONTH ( 'DataMart'[Invoice Date] ) = current_month - 2
        )
    )

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Joey
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Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago
I cannot see why this isn't working, I did try a VAR myself with no change to the total, what it's giving me is the grand total but not the total for the month in question. I add a minus two to the end of the measure, and the number doesn't change.
I have the month split in a matrix so I know what numbers I should be getting.
I can't upload a sample dataset to this forum as I don't have the option.
- v-joesh-msft
  Solution Sage
  6 years ago
  Hi Anonymous ,
  You need to have a cloud storage such as Onedrive or Google Drive where you can put your file. After that, you create a shareable link that you can insert in your post enabling people to download the file.
  Best Regards,
  Community Support Team _ Joey
  If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.