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g_georgiev444
Helper I
3 years ago
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How to make slicer automatically select Current, previous and next weeks?

Hello, I have a duplicated Timestamp column that is transformed to Week of Year. I use that column as a slicer. Because I need to make a custom URL I want to set up the Week column inside Power Bi to...
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v-jianboli-msft
Community Support
3 years ago

Hi g_georgiev444 ,

 

Based on your description, I have created a simple sample:

Then apply the measure to the slicer's filter:

Measure = 
var _a = WEEKNUM(TODAY(),2)
return IF(MAX('Table'[Week of Year])>=_a-1&&MAX('Table'[Week of Year])<=_a+1,1,0)

Final output:

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

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    g_georgiev444
    Helper I
    3 years ago

    Hello v-jianboli-msft 

     

    EDIT:Bottom.

     

    Thank you a lot for this!

     

    There is something which is confusing me quite a lot. I made it work with -2 instead of -1 which is really strange. If I let it as -1 then it does not show week 47 for some reason. Do you have an idea why this might be the case? I suppose it might be due to different start of week count, but for me it is week 48 now and I only saw 48 and 49, but with same settings you saw 48, 49 and 50.

     

    Also, once I added the Measure to the Slicer I had to add it to the visuals as well, or they would continue to show all data.

    Slicer filter:

    Visual filter:

     

    EDIT: I had to reload everything and now I get a different result. I see week 50 as well. I guess this is because PowerBI counts the weeks with 1 forward from what we expect as a result. I will just adjust the + and - in the Measure.