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ALeef
Resolver II
10 years ago

Possible Tip/Trick: Dynamic Date Dimension Table

I'm going to share the dynamic date dimension table I built, hopefully it is useful to someone!  I named it DateTable for this tutorial, and my fact table FactTable.   The table is built using the ...
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Anonymous
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10 years ago

faacq I think your problem will be solved if you just turn the date column in your data to a date, eg. if it is 201601 just change it to 1/1/2016

 

In terms of using it in the slicer, make sure you pull the date column from the date table into the slicer, not the date column from the data

 

let me know if that helps :)

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faacq
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

It worked, I established the relation between the date column in date.dim table and the date column in my fact table. I modified the content on the date column in my fact table from "Month" "year" to 01.01.2016.  I update the data type in PowerBI to (MMM yyyy)

Thank you for your help

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    Rsanjuan
    Advocate III
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Now that I have this date table, I am having trouble actually using it.  How can I calculate a rolling calculation, so that it will count the number of an event 60 days from today's date?  Also, how to count the number of events in the future?