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DavidKress
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8 years ago
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Dynamically changing Date slicer

Hi I'm working off an SQL Analysis Server cube and have created a couple of DAX measures which calculate the difference in sales from the same day the prior year.  I have a table which shows end customers worldwide (thousands of customer) operating off a date slicer which defines the date to look at and compares against prior year.  Instead of having users select the date (and scrolling thru 4+ years of individual dates) I want the slicer to default to the current date minus 7 days.  The minus 7 days is because the data in the cube gets published on a 5 day time lag.   Is there an easy way to do this?  I've been trying my options, none working so far.  

 

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  • v-xjiin-msft's avatar
    v-xjiin-msft
    8 years ago

    DavidKress

     

    I think you can try to use Power Query to create a new table which is containing today and 7 days before today. Then use this table value as slicer.

     

    Please refer:

    1. Go to Edit Queries, create a new blank query with Power Query script:

    = {Date.AddDays(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),-7),Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())}

    2. Change List to Table. Then you can get the dynamica today and 7 days before today.

     

    Thanks,
    Xi Jin.

     

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  • MFelix's avatar
    MFelix
    Super User
    8 years ago

    Hi DavidKress,

     

    In the visual filter add in the Date column and the select Relative date filtering then change to the option in the last 7 days should work you have also several options like next days, months weeks, ...

     

     

    Regards,

    MFelix

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      DavidKress
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Thanks for the reply MFleix - I tried that.  The problem is because my visual is a table of customers, where I'm showing sales for the date and the same date the prior year, when I use relative filtering and change the option to the last 7 days, then what I get is the last 7 days of sales for every customers (and their sales for those same 7 days last year).  So I'm trying to get the slicer to automatically pick Feb 6 for today (Feb13).  Then tomorrow (Feb14) the slicer defaults to Feb 7, etc

      • MFelix's avatar
        MFelix
        Super User
        8 years ago

        How are you calculating previous year sales?

         

        WhenI tried on my sets of data with current vs previous I was abble to have the preivou months althoug dates were with relative slicer

         

        Regards,

        MFelix