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nickelcap
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10 years ago
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Filtering to Latest Time Stamp

Hi Everyone,   I'm having an issue with filtering by the latest time stamp in Power BI Desktop. I used the method outlined by Lukasz Pawlowski here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lukaszp/2015/08...
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  • v-haibl-msft's avatar
    v-haibl-msft
    10 years ago

    nickelcap

     

    Please take a look at below screenshot, I don’t have the problem you mentioned above. Are you using the latest Version: 2.36.4434.381 64-bit (June 2016)?

     

    Best Regards,
    Herbert

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v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

nickelcap

 

According to your description, I create a dataset and create two columns as below. Not sure if it is what you want.

If you still have issues with this, could you please provide some sample data and expected output result?

 

 

Latest_in_Group = 
IF (
    Table1[Date]
        = CALCULATE ( MAX ( Table1[Date] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Group] ) ),
    "Group Latest"
)
Latest_in_Name = 
IF (
    Table1[Date]
        = CALCULATE ( MAX ( Table1[Date] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Name] ) ),
    "Name Latest"
)

 

Best Regards,
Herbert

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    nickelcap
    Frequent Visitor
    10 years ago

    Hi Herbert,

     

    Thank you very much for the suggestion. I attempted to implement it, however I did not seem to quite get the output I was hoping for. Here's a snip of what I'm looking at:

     

     

    Example

     

    You can see that for 00011117 the 'Group Latest' is for an earlier time stamp (2016/07/15 2:17:38 AM) than the true latest time stamp (2016/07/15 6:17:36 AM). Looking at my other report, it looks like the time stamps I was working with only had the date. Could adding time to the mix be causing the issue?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Dan

    • v-haibl-msft's avatar
      v-haibl-msft
      Microsoft Employee
      10 years ago

      nickelcap

       

      Please take a look at below screenshot, I don’t have the problem you mentioned above. Are you using the latest Version: 2.36.4434.381 64-bit (June 2016)?

       

      Best Regards,
      Herbert

      • nickelcap's avatar
        nickelcap
        Frequent Visitor
        10 years ago

        Hi Herbert, 

         

        Yes, I am using the latest version of Power BI Desktop. I made sure that I had the same syntax you showed, and realized that for the last column reference I had managed to select the wrong column! My mistake. The formula is now working as desired.

         

        Thank you very much!

         

        Dan