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Ignore filter year selection
Alright, I think I understood you now. What you want is to show the previous year no matter what year is selected. For eg, if we are on 2016, you always want to show 2015 data, even if we select 2010 or 2012 or any other year on filter.
1) Create a measure that will show the max year available in the fact table
MaxYear=CALCULATE(MAX('Fact'[Year]), ALL('Fact'[Year]))
2) Now make the measure as you want. Instead of hardcoding 2014, you can use the measure which will always return the max year available in fact, irrespective of the filter.
test=CALCULATE(SUM('Fact'[Sales]), FILTER(ALL('Fact'[Year]), 'Fact'[Year]=[MaxYear]-1))
Is this what you want? :)
Sql Jason
I guess i didn't express as well as i expected. Your formula works , but when i change the year on the slicer object, the table becomes empty. What iam trying to get independently of the year selected , is that the table remains the same ( in other words, just ignore the filter year selected) !
With no year selected
With year selected
Alright, I think I understood you now. What you want is to show the previous year no matter what year is selected. For eg, if we are on 2016, you always want to show 2015 data, even if we select 2010 or 2012 or any other year on filter.
1) Create a measure that will show the max year available in the fact table
MaxYear=CALCULATE(MAX('Fact'[Year]), ALL('Fact'[Year]))
2) Now make the measure as you want. Instead of hardcoding 2014, you can use the measure which will always return the max year available in fact, irrespective of the filter.
test=CALCULATE(SUM('Fact'[Sales]), FILTER(ALL('Fact'[Year]), 'Fact'[Year]=[MaxYear]-1))
Is this what you want? :)
Jason i will try it , and if it works i'll back on you.
Thanks !
Kudos for this answer. Been stuck on this for almost a full work day (wanting to display previous year in line graph when current year is selected), this works great. A great alternative if SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR() is not working, which will happen very often when there are gaps in your data.