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AMR80
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First Day of the Month and Current Year

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: 

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The [Start Date] field is a Date field: 

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Here's the measure formula:
Personal Hours Reset Date = DATE(Year(TODAY()),'Employee Time Used - Hours'[Start Date],STARTOFMONTH('Employee Time Used - Hours'[Start Date])
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Anonymous
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HI @AMR80 

 

 Try the below formula:

 

Start of Current year Month = DATE(
                                                          YEAR(TODAY()),
                                                          MONTH(MIN('Date Sample'[given_date])),
                                                          1)
 
Thanks
Raj

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Anonymous
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HI @AMR80 

 

 Try the below formula:

 

Start of Current year Month = DATE(
                                                          YEAR(TODAY()),
                                                          MONTH(MIN('Date Sample'[given_date])),
                                                          1)
 
Thanks
Raj

That did it @Anonymous !! Thank you very much

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hell0 @AMR80 ,

try with below measure,

Measure = DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(MAX(Table[date])),DAY(STARTOFMONTH(Table[date])))

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: 

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HotChilli
Community Champion
Community Champion

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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