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ngomes
Helper II
3 years ago
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DAX selected years

Good afternoon I have a report in which the user selects the years in which he wants to compare quantities sold, he can choose the years he wants, for example, select 2022, 2020, 2014   I have the...
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  • ngomes's avatar
    ngomes
    3 years ago

    Hello

    after a lot of struggle i found the solution to my problem

    basically I had to create several calendars and use the formula CALCULATE([Year Value],USERELATIONSHIP('Calendar Year 1'[Date],Sales[Date])) for each selected year

    it Works very well
    send the example for knowledge
    EXEMPLE 


    Thank you all for your help

lbendlin's avatar
lbendlin
Super User
3 years ago
this formula returns the values of 2021 not the values of the selected previous year which would be 2020

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR  means exactly that.  Power BI has no idea that you mean "the maximum selected year that is smaller than the year that is currently in context".  You will have to write your own measure for that, and you will need to decide what to do for the first selected year (2014)  - return BLANK() ?

  • ngomes's avatar
    ngomes
    Helper II
    3 years ago
    good evening
thanks for the answers

in the end I need to compare the values ​​of the years that the user has chosen, that is, compare 2022 with 2020 and 2020 with 2014 (example)

I have to find a way to find out which years the user has chosen and compare them
I appreciate all the help you can give me
thanks
    • aj1973's avatar
      aj1973
      Community Champion
      3 years ago

      Hi ngomes 

      Since you want to compare Quantities by year selected, I think it would be simple to add 3 date       slicers and cards for each selected year using "Edit interaction" feature to stop slicers from interacting with the wrong cards.

      This way you leave the liberty for the user to choose what year on each slicer and for the cards to display the quantity of sales in each year selected 

      • ngomes's avatar
        ngomes
        Helper II
        3 years ago

        Good Morning Amine Jerbi
        Thanks again for your help

        Could you give me an example of how I could do it?

        I'm still new to Power BI

    • lbendlin's avatar
      lbendlin
      Super User
      3 years ago

      Read about using the FILTERS() function.

      • ngomes's avatar
        ngomes
        Helper II
        3 years ago

        thanks ibendlin

        I read a lot about filters with dax but I'm still having difficulties comparing the year 2022 with 2020 and 2020 with 2014 for example

        I have slicer per year and as I said at the beginning the user can choose any slicer year