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Anonymous
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Last Month - date function

Hi PowerBi community, 

 

I would like to have a measure for last month. 

For example if today is 02/03/2020 I would like to view the accumulated productivity for the FEB. (1st-29th of FEB). 

 

Could you please advise. 

 

I have a dates table which looks like  Date table.JPG

Thank you in advance. 

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v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario.

Table:

a1.png

DateTable:

DateTable = CALENDAR(MIN('Table'[Date]),TODAY())

 

There is a one-to-one relationship between two tables.

 

You may create a measure as follows.

previous accumulated productivity = 
TOTALMTD(
    SUM('Table'[Productivity]),
    ENDOFMONTH(
           DATEADD(DateTable[Date],-1,MONTH)
    )
)

 

Result:

a5.png

a6.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

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Greg_Deckler
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If time intelligence fails you, you can always do it the hard way. See if my Time Intelligence the Hard Way provides a different way of accomplishing what you are going for.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Time-Intelligence-quot-The-Hard-Way-quot-TIT...



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Make sure your table is joined with a date table use time intelligence functions like datesmtd, totalmtd etc

example

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

Other

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 year MTD (complete) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFMONTH(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH))))
last year MTD Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH)))

To get the best of the time intelligence function. Make sure you have a date calendar and it has been marked as the date in model view. Also, join it with the date column of your fact/s. Refer :
https://radacad.com/creating-calendar-table-in-power-bi-using-dax-functions
https://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/creating-date-table-power-bi
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/creating-a-simple-date-table-in-dax/

 

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Anonymous
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/lastdate-function-dax

 

See the above documentation.

 

measure=LASTDATE(Max(table[date]))

 

column=LASTDATE(table[Column])

 

Thanks & regards,
Pravin Wattamwar
www.linkedin.com/in/pravin-p-wattamwar

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