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elenton
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7 years ago
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Previous Days Orders

Hi I want to get all orders from the previous day.  However if i use now() - 1 it pulls the time in which dosent link on my date table. If i format the date it ends up as a string whcih is inc...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    7 years ago

    elenton seems lke you have date dimension in your model, if yes then update measure

     

    Prev day sales = 
CALCULATE ( SUM( Table[Sales] ), 
PREVIOUSDAY( Date[Date] ) 
)
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elenton
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7 years ago

parry2k this is the error that comes up

Error Message:
MdxScript(Model) (63, 5) Calculation error in measure '_Alert Measures'[_Daily Calls Total]:
DAX comparison operations do not support comparing values of type Date with values of type Text.
Consider using the VALUE or FORMAT function to convert one of the values.

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parry2k
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7 years ago

elenton seems lke you have date dimension in your model, if yes then update measure

 

Prev day sales = 
CALCULATE ( SUM( Table[Sales] ), 
PREVIOUSDAY( Date[Date] ) 
)
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    elenton
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    7 years ago

    parry2k Thats not bring back any data but i will have a play around with that approach see if i can get it working thanks

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      parry2k
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      7 years ago

      elenton logically it should work if you have date dimension. May be there is any filter or something which is makign it not to work. Please reach out if you still need help. 

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        elenton
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        7 years ago

        parry2k ive got it working now thanks, it is definalty a formatting issue which i will play with to see if i can get a better fix, but for now i just created another column in my date dimension that is just a date field and used today-1 to go back one day which looks to have worked.