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PBSuper
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9 years ago

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I am using SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR for my MTD Last Year calculation, however it returns Sales for the entire month of the previous year. So if I am reporting MTD sales for 17-08-2017, the MTD Last Year I ...
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PBSuper
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9 years ago

I have already trimmed my calendar dimension in my tabular to not include any future dates. My fact is not going to have future sales so I probably don't have to worry about that. Doing this has not fixed my problem.

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v-jiascu-msft
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9 years ago

Hi PBSuper,

 

Maybe it's something about context. Which table is the column date of the report from? Is it from table "Calendar"?

This formula works fine in my test:

 

TotalMTDLastYear =
TOTALMTD ( SUM ( Sales[Quantity] ), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( 'Calendar'[Date] ) )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards!

Dale