Measure with multiple dates

[Anonymous]

I want to generate the the following dates in a single measure (Yesterday, Today, last week, and This week) such that when i drag this field to a table or card it gives a list of all four as a list without me creating four measures. Thanks

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can get a card of those values with this one measure.  Note that there are carriage returns in the "return" part.

Four Dates = var thisday = TODAY()

var yesterday = thisday -1

var thisweek = thisday - WEEKDAY(thisday) +1 & " - " & thisday-WEEKDAY(thisday) + 7

var lastweek = thisday-6-WEEKDAY(thisday) & " - " & thisday-WEEKDAY(thisday)

return

"Today - " & thisday & "

Yesterday - " & yesterday & "

This Week - " & thisweek & "

Last Week - " & lastweek

I tried to add a pic of the card visual but pics aren't showing in my posts at the moment.

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can get a card of those values with this one measure.  Note that there are carriage returns in the "return" part.

Four Dates = var thisday = TODAY()

var yesterday = thisday -1

var thisweek = thisday - WEEKDAY(thisday) +1 & " - " & thisday-WEEKDAY(thisday) + 7

var lastweek = thisday-6-WEEKDAY(thisday) & " - " & thisday-WEEKDAY(thisday)

return

"Today - " & thisday & "

Yesterday - " & yesterday & "

This Week - " & thisweek & "

Last Week - " & lastweek

I tried to add a pic of the card visual but pics aren't showing in my posts at the moment.

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@mahoneypat 

Thanks so much, this is what i needed. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can't use the measure to return multiple results, it is a calculated expression based on row contents. (if you did not has any category fields, it can only one result value)

If you want this measure to return four type of calculation results, you need to create a category with these category types(Yesterday, Today, last week, and This week) and add switch function into the measure formula with different categories.
Then you can navigate to different calculation expressions based on current category value.

Measure =
VAR currCate =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( Table[Category] )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        currCate,
        "Yesterday", 'formula1',
        "Today", 'formula2',
        "last week", 'formula3',
        "This week", 'formula4'
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous 

Thanks for your response. A coule of questions though,

1) When you say categories, do you mean the actual dates for each(Today, yesterday, last week and this week)?
2) So, this is not a question but more of a correction based on my question. There is no date field so I will be using Current day as my date field, possibly Today() formula.
3) Lastly,do i need to create formula1, 2,3 and 4 too?

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , Not very clear.

when we return value we can return a value only. So if you need this you need to have a series

table = generateseries(0,6,1)

measure = calculate(today() -min(Table[Value]))

On the card, this will give today date. when you use series to display it will give 7 days

[Anonymous]

@amitchandak 

I'm sorry if i wasn't clear. I should have mentioned that these respective dates would be generated from an existing date field.  In your solution you mentioned that if i display it with a series, it will give 7days. Not sure what you mean by that.