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Christina_R
Regular Visitor
3 years ago
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DAX formula not recognizing period (.)

Hi, I have an issue with a measure i try to create for calculating the profit target as 10% higher than the previous month's profit. So I create a measure like this Profit Target = [Previous Mo...
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  • Christina_R's avatar
    Christina_R
    3 years ago

    Hi all

     

    thanks for your help

    The issue now is fixed, after i applied my Windows settings to match the ones of Power BI.

     

    For Windows i had comma (,) as decimal seperator and this seems to have been overruling the settings of Power BI

     

    Christina

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flath
Helper II
3 years ago

Hi Christina;

I've tried to create a measure the exact same way you did with your [Target Area] and it worked fine on my laptop.
So I would need to see how you created the measue [Previous Month Profit] in order to better understand what may not going well with measure [Profit Target].


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Christina_R
Regular Visitor
3 years ago

Hi 

thanks!

that's the previous month profit measure

 

Previous Month Profit =
CALCULATE(
    [Total Profit],
    DATEADD(
        'Calendar Lookup'[Date],
        -1,
        MONTH
    ))
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    flath
    Helper II
    3 years ago

    Hi,

    Insteade of using "DATEADD", have you tried using PREVIOUSMONTH?

    It would be like this:

    CALCULATE(
        [Total Profit],
        PREVIOUSMONTH('Calendar Lookup'[Date])
        )




    • Christina_R's avatar
      Christina_R
      Regular Visitor
      3 years ago

      Hi

      same issue... 😞

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        flath
        Helper II
        3 years ago

        Maybe, using VARs...
        *Copy and Paste the following DAX on your [Target Area] measure*

        Profit Target =
        VAR PreviousProfit = [Previous Month Profit] 
        VAR increase = 1.1

        RETURN PreviousProfit * increase