Dynamically changing Date slicer

[DavidKress]

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.  

Thanks

[MFelix]

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

[DavidKress]

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

[v-xjiin-msft · Accepted solution]

@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.

[MFelix]

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