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MattScruggs
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Item falling between 2 dates filter by calendar date heiarchy

I have a data set with a few thousand line items. In this, there are 2 columns, a start date, and an end date. I am looking for a way to determine if an item was standing during a certain date. This is easy to do with a simple if statement, but the problem Im having is that I want to be able to filter it at the visual level by any date, selected by the user.  I have [ActualBuildDate] and [ActualDismantleDate] Where [ActualBuildDate] will aways have a date, and [ActualDismantleDate] will alway be after [ActualBuildDate] or blank (Still standing).  If I select January 2020, I want to see every item that was standing during January 2020. I have a Calender table set up using this code  Date Filter = DATESBETWEEN( 'Date'[Date], MIN('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]), IF(MAX('1_Overview'[ActualDismantleDate]) > MAX('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]), MAX('1_Overview'[ActualDismantleDate]), MAX('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]) )) I have set a filter with a date heiarchy using this. but filtering by the dates on it do not return the proper items. 

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MattScruggs
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Build DateDemo Date

1/22/2020 
1/23/2020 
1/24/20202/20/2020
1/25/20202/21/2020
1/26/20202/22/2020
1/27/20202/23/2020
1/28/20202/24/2020
1/29/20202/25/2020

 

My dates look like this. 

This is the formula for my Calender table

 

Calendar = CALENDAR(MIN('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]),
IF(
MAX('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]) > MAX('1_Overview'[ActualDismantleDate]),
MAX('1_Overview'[ActualBuildDate]),
MAX('1_Overview'[ActualDismantleDate])
)
)
Anonymous
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@MattScruggs 

Maybe provide a short sample data.

 

Regards
Paul

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@MattScruggs , not very clear. If you want to same date range to be filtered on both dates. You can join them to the same date table. Active/inactive joins will be created. And you can use join on choice using use relation.

 

example :https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/HR-Analytics-Active-Employee-Hire-and-Termination-tr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y-l_JtCq4

 

If case you need different date ranges then you can have a date range on these two dates or you can create two date tables. One joins with each date.

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