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tohare85
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Dynamic Lookup Table

I am trying to create a lookup table that will contain 2 columns (projectID, activeMonth) from a main table of Projects that lists start and end dates (could be empty if project is still active). I want a lookup table that will tell me if the project was active during a specific month (up to 48 months back from date of report). I know how I would programtically iterate through each project row then check if it was active during any of the past 48 month, however, I can't think about how I would do this with DAX. If a project was only active for 3 months then it will only have 3 rows in the ActiveMonth table. Any ideas? Thanks!

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stretcharm
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Sounds a similar problem to this post

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Help-needed-graphing-a-count-between-a-date-range/m-p/307250...

 

@parry2kprovided a solution that could be adapted to meet your needs.

 

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Ashish_Mathur
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Hi @tohare85

 

This should be doable using Query Editor and DAX formulas.  Share a dataset and show the expected result.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
stretcharm
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Sounds a similar problem to this post

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Help-needed-graphing-a-count-between-a-date-range/m-p/307250...

 

@parry2kprovided a solution that could be adapted to meet your needs.

 

Thanks @stretcharm. Reaching out to @parry2k to see how to change the granularity of his solution.

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