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mikeborg82
Advocate II
8 years ago
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DAX help

PY YTD Terms = CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT(Terms[Employee Number]),FILTER(SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('Date Dim'[Date]),CONTAINS(VALUES('Date Dim'[Prior Year]), 'Date Dim'[Prior Year], 'Date Dim'[Date])))   I h...
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  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    You may see my solution here.

     

    Hope this helps.

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
8 years ago

Hi,

 

You may see my solution here.

 

Hope this helps.

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mikeborg82
Advocate II
8 years ago

thank you.  this does work!  do you think you could explain what the issue was so i will know for future models?  THanks again i really appreciate the help

  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    Super User
    8 years ago

    You are welcome.  The DATESBETWEEN() function used in the YTD terminations measure ensures that the arithmatic (distinctcount in our case) starts from the 1st day of the year and goes till the last date of the month chosen in the visual filter.

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    mikeborg82
    Advocate II
    8 years ago

    Yes, this makes perfect sense.  I assumed when I used a function like "TotaLYTD", that powerbi would know to give me the total of the year I am in YTD at the time, and I wouldn't need to add a filter.  My date dimension table goes for several years ahead, so this could be why when I use the totalytd function with no filter, I get blank results.  

     

    Thanks again for your help.

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    mikeborg82
    Advocate II
    8 years ago

    sorry to keep this going - but is there any way to set this up a bit more dynamically?  I would rather not have to update the model each month and I can't believe that PowerBI doesn't have a better solution..