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Lino
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8 years ago
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Current Year vs Previous Year

Hello everyone   I have a table that contains two fields:   Date Amount   This table contains data of 2016, 2017 and 2018.   My scope is creating a measure called Amount PY using DAX. For ...
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    CrisYan
    8 years ago

    You must use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR() instead of PREVIOUSUEAR(), because the last one returns ALL dates from the last year, and you need the same day shifted one year back (Using SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR()).

     

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8 years ago

You must use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR() instead of PREVIOUSUEAR(), because the last one returns ALL dates from the last year, and you need the same day shifted one year back (Using SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR()).

 

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Lino
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8 years ago
CrisYan wrote:

You must use SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR() instead of PREVIOUSUEAR(), because the last one returns ALL dates from the last year, and you need the same day shifted one year back (Using SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR()).

 

Regards!

 

I tried more and more times this function and it never worked. Now, after your suggestion, I tried another time and now it works.

 

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

 

Regards

Lino