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mikeborg82
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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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mikeborg82
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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

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Ashish_Mathur
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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.