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I need to find the first day of the month from the month an employee started, but use the current year.
I'm trying to do this with a Measure in PBI desktop.
I tried the below measure formula, but it doesn't recognize the "Month" portion of the formula:
The [Start Date] field is a Date field:
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HI @AMR80
Try the below formula:
HI @AMR80
Try the below formula:
That did it @Anonymous !! Thank you very much
Hell0 @AMR80 ,
try with below measure,
That got me much closer thank you! The only issue now is the DAY. It returned 3/5/2021 instead of 3/1/2021. The actual Start Date in the Start Date field is 3/19/2018. Here is what your formula returned in PBI:
You need to pass a number between 1 and 12 for the month parameter. You're trying to pass a date there.
Also, a measure is evaluated in context so if using a field from the data it has to have an aggregation round it (MIN, MAX etc) . So please be aware whent constructing the measure.
Thank you @HotChilli but I still cannot get it to work. Can you suggest a measure formula that would take this date (for example): 3/9/2018 and return: 3/1/2021 (the first of the month from the original date and the current year).
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