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MagnusSthlm
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Creating dynamic quarters

Hi!

 

My customer has four charts, one for each quarter. They want to select Year and Quarter from a dropdown for example 2018-Q4 as start quarter. The second chart should then show show data from 2019-Q1 and so on. 

 

I tested several things to achieve this but I'm stuck. I created four columns in my date table and they all show the correct year and quarters. If the first quarter is 2018-04 the second quarter is 2019-01. But when I select the Year Quarter on the dropdown all the charts get filtered on the same data. 

 

I can't use a measure here or can I? A measure can't be on a legend. If I could I could use Calculate and ALL to remove all filters.

 

Anyone done this before?

 

/Magnus

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Hi! 

 

Thanks for your reply. I actually solved it yesterday.

 

In my date table I created a Year - Quarter column. Then I manually created a new table, called it Year Quarter Selector. It had four columns, first column is the year - quarter the user selects. Then the next column is the following year - quarter. So first could be 2018-Q4 and the second would be 2019-Q1 and so on. 

 

Then I created  four measures that used SELECTEDVALUE from my selector. I used them as filters in the chart. 

 

I can clarify with some code if someone is interested.

 

/Magnus

 

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v-chuncz-msft
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@MagnusSthlm,

 

You may refer to the following post.

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Split-amp-filter-data-from-one-table-into-multiple-based-on-...

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi! 

 

Thanks for your reply. I actually solved it yesterday.

 

In my date table I created a Year - Quarter column. Then I manually created a new table, called it Year Quarter Selector. It had four columns, first column is the year - quarter the user selects. Then the next column is the following year - quarter. So first could be 2018-Q4 and the second would be 2019-Q1 and so on. 

 

Then I created  four measures that used SELECTEDVALUE from my selector. I used them as filters in the chart. 

 

I can clarify with some code if someone is interested.

 

/Magnus

 

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