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Hi,
I’m new to Power BI. Using the sample data below I can determine Monthly Variance and MoM with Power BI measures. I can even return the Year To Date total.
Where I’m struggling is return Monthly Units for current month (6/1/2022 below). I need to print it out as “Cur Month” with formatting so I think I need to create a measure like below – however that returns the Year to Date number.
"Cur Mon: (" & FORMAT(SUM('Monthly Units]), "###" ) & ")
I need to solve this without using a Date slicer, so does that mean using the DAX Filter function?
FirstOfMonth | Monthly Units | Prev Monthly Units | Monthly Variance | MoM |
7/1/2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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8/1/2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% |
9/1/2021 | 1 | 3 | -2 | -66.67% |
10/1/2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
11/1/2021 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 200.00% |
12/1/2021 | 2 | 3 | -1 | -33.33% |
1/1/2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
2/1/2022 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 400.00% |
3/1/2022 | 5 | 10 | -5 | -50.00% |
4/1/2022 | 2 | 5 | -3 | -60.00% |
5/1/2022 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 100.00% |
6/1/2022 | 3 | 4 | -1 | -25.00% |
| 39 | 36 |
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Thanks in advance.
@ColePatrick where you want this to be show "Cur Mon: (" & FORMAT(SUM('Monthly Units]), "###" ) & ")
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