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PBI_enthusiast2
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DAX Measure to Create the Previous Date Sales

 I have a measure that gives the sales over the given date in column B. I am trying to create another measure that would give me a results as in Column C (screenshot below).

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Data Model:

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 The measure I have tried, but did not worked as expected.

CALCULATE([Sales_Measure],  FILTER(ALLSELECTED(DimDate), DimDate[Date] <  MAX(DimDate[Date])))
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Ashish_Mathur
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Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

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Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

Untitled.png


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

=
CALCULATE (
    LASTNONBLANKVALUE ( DimDate[DateKey], [Sales_Measure] ),
    DimDate[DateKey] < MAX ( DimDate[DateKey] )
)

Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

Greg_Deckler
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Super User

@PBI_enthusiast2 Try:

PD Measure =
  VAR __DateKey = MAX('DimDate'[DateKey])
  VAR __PDKey = MAXX(FILTER(ALL('DimDate'),[DateKey] < __DateKey)
  VAR __Result = CALCULATE([Sales Measure], 'DimDate'[DateKey] = __PDKey)
RETURN
  __Result


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DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard...

Hi @Greg_Deckler and @CNENFRNL.  Could you share the way to solve this with the new WINDOW() and INDEX() functions.

Thank you.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

No comments as I haven't mastered these newly introduced functions. I'm personally no fan for these funcs because they (seem to) sabotage the conciseness and elegance of "old-school" DAX funcs; IMHO they seem to be some replica of Tableau table calculation funcs.


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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