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CurrentYear - Last Year

Good Afternoon,

It's been a while since I have had to do any DAX.  For some reason, I am getting myself all twisted up with this one.

I have a Measure to calculate [Selling Profit] YTD:

SellingProft_YTD = CALCULATE( [Selling Profit],
                   ALL(DimTime),
                   DATESYTD( DimTime[Date], "12/31" ))          

Unfortunately, I have inherited this model from another developer.
First issue is the company maintains future dated invoices in their Fact Table.  But I only want the Calculation up to and including Today().   When I tried adding this additional filter, I lost my Cumulative Values.  Unsure of the syntax to accomplish this.

 

Second issue is I need to calculate the Difference in [Selling Profit].   So [Selling Profit] Current Year - [Selling Profit] Last Year.

Got myself all twisted trying to do this.  A helping hand would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

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Padycosmos
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

@Padycosmos ,

So using the TotalYTD function, I was able to replicate the results I had in my original post.  So I am no further ahead at this point.  Still unable to resolve my first issue of restricting the max date to today.

Any advice?

You may please try this

CY YTD = TOTALYTD([Total Sales],Orders[Order Date],Orders[Order Date]<TODAY())

@Padycosmos ,

Nope, unfortunately, that doesn't work.  I lose my Cumulative Results and it just gives me one number (i.e $3.5M for all dates ).

 

Instead of using the Date column from the Dimtime table, could you please try using the Date from the Fact table?

@Padycosmos ,

Thanks for passing along the video.  Will have a look at it to see if I can get my model working.

Haven't used those functions before, so may take me some time to get up to speed.

Thanks and regards,

 

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