Creating Pay Period Start and End Dates from Calendar Table?

[Tihannah]

I have my main calendar table but would like to create a slicer based on Pay Period Start and End dates. Specifically to show both as one column, i.e.  11/17/23 - 11/30/23 (which is an actual pay period date range) and can be put into a dropdown filter for selection. I've looked and looked, but can't seem to find an example of this in any previously posted questions. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Tihannah 

Thanks@JamesFR06 and @lbendlin, I have the following additions. Based on your description, I use the following sample data:

I created a slicer with date and set the slicer style to between:

I stitched together the maximum and minimum values in the slicer into a single line with the following DAX:

MEASURE =
VAR _start =
    CALCULATE ( MIN ( 'Date'[Date] ), ALLSELECTED ( 'Date' ) )
VAR _End =
    CALCULATE ( MAX ( 'Date'[Date] ), ALLSELECTED ( 'Date' ) )
RETURN
    _start & "-" & _End

Select different start and end dates through slicer for dynamic splicing:

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[JamesFR06]

HI

I did it 2 times

The first one with a filter on date on filter panel

The second one, i have created a second date table ofr the required period and linked it to my date table

[lbendlin]

Are these pay periods depending on any user supplied filters?  If not then there is no point in trying to compute them over and over again.  Use an external reference table.

[Tihannah]

No. They will be the only filter on the dashboard.  @JamesFR06  is there supposed to be an attachment or link to your post? 

[JamesFR06]

No just to tell you how i ve managed the tips