Determine Start of Quarter In Date Table Based On MAX Date in Fact Table

[Anonymous]

I am trying to categorize the dates in my date table ('tCalendar') that fall into the current quarter so that I can use it as a filter in my visualizations. The current quarter is based on the latest [Date Completed] value in my fact table 'ReqMaster'. I created a column on the date table and attempted the first part of the formula to check for all dates equal-to or greater than the first of the quarter.

QTR Test = IF( 'tCalendar'[Date] >= CALCULATE( STARTOFQUARTER('ReqMaster Main'[Date Completed]), FILTER( ALL( 'ReqMaster Main'), 'ReqMaster Main'[Date Completed] = MAX('ReqMaster Main'[Date Completed]))), "Current Qtr", BLANK())

What is confusing to me is that the CALCULATE function is not returning the expected result - in this case, 7/1/2018. Instead it returns 7/2/2018. I'm assuming this is because my fact table does not have a value of 7/1/2018 in it, but does have 7/2/2018. But I would have expected the STARTOFQUARTER to have forced the value to be evaluated to be 7/1.  Can someone help me understand if there is a better way I should be doing this?

Any help is appreciated!

[v-yuta-msft]

Hi rootdown42,

In your senario, you'd better input  date like  "7/1" manually as a condition in calculate function because STARTOFQUARTER will return the first date of the quarter in the current context for the specified column of dates.

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

[Anonymous]

Thank you Jimmy, but this data will be updated going forward, so the goal is that no manual entry of date criteria will be needed. I want the current quarter to always be defined by the dates in the fact table. So I'm open to any solution that achieves this - it doesn't have to utilize STARTOFQUARTER.