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Help required with a slicer. To report a range.
Thank you, that makes sense.
The cleanest way I could see to do it is to add a column to the People table that calculates their next birthday. This column will update when the model is refreshed so as peoples birthdays pass the [Next Birthday] column will shift to next year.
Next Birthday = VAR _Today = TODAY() VAR _YearToday = YEAR ( _Today ) VAR _ThisYear = DATE ( _YearToday, MONTH ( People[Birthday] ), DAY ( People[Birthday] ) ) VAR _NextYear = DATE ( _YearToday +1, MONTH ( People[Birthday] ), DAY ( People[Birthday] ) ) RETURN IF ( _ThisYear < _Today, _NextYear, _ThisYear )I added Snoop so I would have an upcoming October birthday for testing.
Then we need a measure to check if the next birthday is in the upcoming months based on the users selection in the what if slicer.
Birthday Check = VAR _Months = [Months Value] VAR _EndDate = EOMONTH(TODAY(),_Months) RETURN CALCULATE( COUNTROWS(People), People[Next Birthday] <= _EndDate )We put the people and thier next birthday in a table and add the [Birthday Check] measure as a filter on the visual and set it to 'is not blank'.
Which gives me the result you are looking for.
I have updated my sample file and attached it for you to look at.
Anonymous
I wanted to figure out how to do it with just a measure so you would not have to add a column to the People table and rely on the model refresh to calculate the next birthday. This measure will do the calculation every time it is checked so it should always return the up-to-date results.
Birthday Check = VAR _Months = [Months Value] VAR _EndDate = EOMONTH(TODAY(),_Months) VAR _People = ADDCOLUMNS( SUMMARIZE(People,People[Name],People[Birthday]), "@Next Birhtday", VAR _Today = TODAY() VAR _YearToday = YEAR ( _Today ) VAR _ThisYear = DATE ( _YearToday, MONTH ( People[Birthday] ), DAY ( People[Birthday] ) ) VAR _NextYear = DATE ( _YearToday +1, MONTH ( People[Birthday] ), DAY ( People[Birthday] ) ) RETURN IF ( _ThisYear < _Today, _NextYear, _ThisYear ) ) RETURN COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( _People, [@Next Birhtday] <= _EndDate ) )
Super UserAnonymous
Assuming you have a calendar table in your model you can accomplish what I think you are looking for pretty easily.
Add the month offset column to your calendar table.
Add a parameter to your report under Modeling > New Parameter
Add the slicer to the page and then write a measure like this:
Filtered Months Amount =
VAR _Months = [Months Value]
RETURN
CALCULATE(
[Total Amount],Dates[Month Offset] <= _Months )
I have attached my sample file for you to look at.
Hi jdbuchanan71
Thanks for showing me the What-If, I've not seen this before, and it looks like if could be quite useful. Unfortunately this isn't the answer to this issue, unless I am missing something. But I admit I've only been learning how to use this for a few weeks. The brief course didn't go this deep into methods,unfortunately.
What I am trying to achieve is a subset of the data, this method does exactly the same as my attempts.
Once I have the selectedvalue, I then want to limit my dataset. From 1 to selectedvalue. Which is kind of what I'm seeing in your example, as wouldn't only the three columns show?
I think it's the throwing in of the [Total Amounts] that is confusing me. Does this mean I can set up my dataset the same? At present jut the date and the offset?Many thanks