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Anonymous
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Help with Previous Month Metric

Hi all,

 

I'm having trouble getting a card metric to show only the previous month's data. I'm using this as my measure:

Processes (Previous Month) = if(max('Calendar'[Date])=EOMONTH(today(),-1),CALCULATE([Count of Processes],DATESBETWEEN('Calendar'[Date],EOMONTH(today(),-2)+1,EOMONTH(today(),-1))))
 
Strangely enough, this formula has been working for me on various other time metrics on the same report but just filtered on different processes being reported on, so I am at a lost on what is different. Some of my other metrics are also just for previous month, while others are previous month and 1 year ago for the same month.
 
 
My desired outcome is a card metric that will show 389, the total for the month of September.
 
Thank you for your time,
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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

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Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

Untitled.png


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Anonymous
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@Ashish_Mathur 

 

Thank you. Looks like my measure included extra pieces that did not work this one.

 

Appreciate you providing it in the pbix so I could look at

You are welcome.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous , Join your date with date of date table and try to use time intelligence

 

examples

MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD('Date'[Date]))
last MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,MONTH)))
last month Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),previousmonth('Date'[Date]))
MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD('Date'[Date]))
last MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,MONTH)))
last month Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),previousmonth('Date'[Date]))

 

 

or

 

MTD =
var _max = if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , today())
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1 ,
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))


MTD =
var _max = min(MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , MAXX(allselected('Table'), 'Table'[Sales Date]))
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1 ,
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))

 


This Month =
var _max = eomonth(if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , today()),0)
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1 ,
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))
eomonth(if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , Maxx(allselected(Sales), Sales[Date]),0)

LMTD =
var _max1 = if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , today())
var _max = date(Year(_max1), month(_max1)-1, day(_max))
var _min = eomonth(_max1,-2)+1
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))

 

Last Month =
var _max1 = if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , today())
var _max = eomonth(_max1,-1)
var _min = eomonth(_max1,-2)+1
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))

 

Power BI — Month on Month with or Without Time Intelligence
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-mtd-questions-time-intelligence-3-5-64b0b4a4090e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LUBbvcxtKA

 

Time Intelligence, DATESMTD, DATESQTD, DATESYTD, Week On Week, Week Till Date, Custom Period on Period,
Custom Period till date: https://youtu.be/aU2aKbnHuWs&t=145s

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Anonymous
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@amitchandak 

I have joined the data set with the date table. Is that what you were referring to?

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