DAX CALCULATE expression error

[Samiullah-Ehsan]

I am creating a new measure (Net_sales 2019), but as I am entering the DAX measure it shows red line under ''2019'' and returns an expression error. FY is a text column that is why I have entered 2019 as ''2019''.
=CALCULATE([Net_sales],dim_date[FY]=''2019'')

The expression is not valid or appears to be incomplete. Please review and correct the expression.
The syntax for '2019' is incorrect. (DAX(
CALCULATE([Net_sales],dim_date[FY]=''2019'')

)).

[123abc · Accepted solution]

The error you're encountering is because you are using double quotes ('') to enclose the year '2019' within your DAX expression, which is causing a syntax error. In DAX, you should use single quotes (') to enclose text values. Here's the corrected expression:

=CALCULATE([Net_sales], dim_date[FY] = "2019")

In this corrected expression, '2019' is enclosed in double quotes, which is the correct way to specify a text value in DAX. Make sure your column [FY] in the dim_date table also contains '2019' as a text value for this expression to work correctly.

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[Samiullah-Ehsan]

Thank you for the detailed answer and solution. It is working with this solution now. I got it fixed earlier with the help of ChatGPT, I copied the DAX syntax from there and it was the same syntax that I had written, and then pasted it in pivot measure and it worked.
However, then I deleted the measure and created it again, and again it was returning error despite the rught syntax, I again copied the syntax from ChatGPT and it worked. Don't know why it accepts the same copied DAX syntax from ChatGPT and returns the value and when I enter the DAX syntax while creating measure it returns error and shows red line under 2019 after entering single or double quotes.