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cedmiston
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6 years ago
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Custom Month Creation

Hey all,   I'm trying to do calculations for a time report but hitting a snag because we report time from the 25th of each month to the 24th of the next, rather than on the calendar months. So for ...
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  • ChrisMendoza's avatar
    ChrisMendoza
    6 years ago

    cedmiston - You could create additional columns as:

     

    NewMonthNum = 
IF (
    DAY ( 'Table'[Date] ) < 25,
    MONTH ( 'Table'[Date] ),
    MOD ( MONTH ( 'Table'[Date] ) + 1, 12 )
)

     

    and

     

    SwitchMonthName = 
SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    'Table'[NewMonthNum] = 1, "Jan",
    'Table'[NewMonthNum] = 2, "Feb",
    "etc"
)

     

     Then you could use this as your slicer.

     

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    cedmiston

    Try create a month column, should be something like this:

     

    Month.NO = 
VAR Monthno_ =SWITCH (TRUE(),
    'Table'[Date].[Day]<25, MONTH([Date])-1,
    'Table'[Date].[Day]>=25,MONTH('Table'[Date]))
RETURN IF(Monthno_=0, MONTH(CALCULATE(MAX([Date]),FILTER('Table',[Date].[Year]=EARLIER('Table'[Date].[Year])-1))),Monthno_)

     

    Paul Zheng
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

cedmiston

Try create a month column, should be something like this:

 

Month.NO = 
VAR Monthno_ =SWITCH (TRUE(),
    'Table'[Date].[Day]<25, MONTH([Date])-1,
    'Table'[Date].[Day]>=25,MONTH('Table'[Date]))
RETURN IF(Monthno_=0, MONTH(CALCULATE(MAX([Date]),FILTER('Table',[Date].[Year]=EARLIER('Table'[Date].[Year])-1))),Monthno_)

 

Paul Zheng
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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cedmiston
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6 years ago

Anonymousthanks this also worked but I used ChrisMendoza 's solution 🙂