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Chase234
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3 years ago
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Measure for percentage change using date fields

Hi, Super new to Power BI but I have a table for capturing when an objective was created with a date/time column called 'createdOn' I want to calculate how many have been created per month so I...
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    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Hi Chase234 ,

     

    Please try like:

    the percentage change = 
VAR _pre = CALCULATE([Total Objectives],PREVIOUSMONTH('Calendar'[Date]))
VAR _change = DIVIDE([Total Objectives]-_pre,_pre)
RETURN
_change

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amitchandak
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3 years ago

Chase234 , you should always use date table and time intelligence 

 

Time Intelligence, DATESMTD, DATESQTD, DATESYTD, Week On Week, Week Till Date, Custom Period on Period,
Custom Period till date: https://youtu.be/aU2aKbnHuWs&t=145s

Power BI — Year on Year with or Without Time Intelligence
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-ytd-questions-time-intelligence-1-5-e3174b39f38a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km41KfM_0uA
Power BI — Qtr on Qtr with or Without Time Intelligence
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-qtd-questions-time-intelligence-2-5-d842063da839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-TlVx7P0A0
Power BI — Month on Month with or Without Time Intelligence
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-mtd-questions-time-intelligence-3-5-64b0b4a4090e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LUBbvcxtKA
Power BI — Week on Week and WTD
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-wtd-questions-time-intelligence-4-5-98c30fab69d3
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Week-Is-Not-So-Weak-WTD-Last-WTD-and-This-Week-vs-Last-Week/ba-p/1051123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAesWxYgJ8
Day Intelligence - Last day, last non continous day
https://medium.com/@amitchandak.1978/power-bi-day-intelligence-questions-time-intelligence-5-5-5c3243d1f9

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Chase234
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Sorry I have been out for a few weeks but your links have been really helpful mixed with the DAX from the above solution as within your first video I was realised I was missing a Calendar/Date table to join up to my other tables.