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Pmorg73
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5 years ago
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Datediff using months

Hi hopefully a quick query for a Guru.   i created a calculated column for an age in months as follows: No of months old = -DATEDIFF(TODAY(), '01_Calendar'[Date], MONTH)   It works out the valu...
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  • v-janeyg-msft's avatar
    v-janeyg-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi, Pmorg73 

     

    Sorry for not being able to reply you in time due to busy Monday.

    If you use a calendar table date column in your visual, you can easily modify your measure.

    Like this:

    Measure =
MAXX (
    FILTER ( 'Table', [job summary] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[job summary] ) ),
    RELATED ( 'Table 2'[Date] )
)

    If it doesn’t solve your problem, please feel free to ask me.

     

    Best Regards

    Janey Guo

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-janeyg-msft
Community Support
5 years ago

Hi, Pmorg73 

 

According to your description, I think you can modify your measure to calculate the desired result.

Like this:

last date =
MAXX (
    FILTER ( 'Table', [job summary] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[job summary] ) ),
    [date]
)
No of months old = -DATEDIFF(TODAY(), [last date], MONTH)

Here is my sample .pbix file.Hope it helps.

If it doesn’t solve your problem, please feel free to ask me.

 

Best Regards

Janey Guo

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Pmorg73
Post Patron
5 years ago

Thanks for the help and the logic. It does not seem to be working for me. I have a seperate date table, but using the measure I can not select the date column in that, only in my fact table.

data:

measure used:

 

result:

 

model:

 

any thoughts?

 

  • v-janeyg-msft's avatar
    v-janeyg-msft
    Community Support
    5 years ago

    Hi, Pmorg73 

     

    Sorry for not being able to reply you in time due to busy Monday.

    If you use a calendar table date column in your visual, you can easily modify your measure.

    Like this:

    Measure =
MAXX (
    FILTER ( 'Table', [job summary] = SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table'[job summary] ) ),
    RELATED ( 'Table 2'[Date] )
)

    If it doesn’t solve your problem, please feel free to ask me.

     

    Best Regards

    Janey Guo

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

    • Pmorg73's avatar
      Pmorg73
      Post Patron
      5 years ago

      Its curious. I can not get it to work

      measure

       

      result

      I am still getting a result for each entry

      • v-janeyg-msft's avatar
        v-janeyg-msft
        Community Support
        5 years ago

        Hi, Pmorg73 

         

        Since you didn‘t provide sample data and files, the sample I made is to reproduce the content of your screenshots, and there may be some situations that are not mentioned and cause problems.

        Is the 'total all wip' a measure? Can you provide the formula? Since you didn’t specify, I used it as a column directly in my sample.

        You need to provide more information so I can help you.

         

        Best Regards

        Janey Guo

         

        If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.