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5 years ago
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Previous Month only Blank

Hey there,   The following code is only returning a blank output for all visuals   Previous month Count = CALCULATE( COUNTROWS('CLIENT DATASET') , PREVIOUSMONTH('CLIENT DATASET'[Date]))   The ...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    5 years ago

    The reason I asked because in your sample data one of the numbers (43) has the most recent data up to Oct, the rest is up to Nov and that was the reason for this question. Anyhow here is the measure for the previous month:

     

     

    Previous month Count = 
VAR __currentDate = EOMONTH ( MAX ( Sheet1[date] ), -1 )
RETURN 
CALCULATE ( 
    COUNTROWS ( Sheet1 ), 
    DATESBETWEEN ( Sheet1[date], 
    EOMONTH ( __currentDate, -1 ) + 1, __currentDate ) 
)

     

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parry2k
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5 years ago

Anonymous can you put something in excel how you want to see the data, it is critical to understand to provide the solution, when you say a previous month, you can want to see the month or dates on the rows and then compare the count of that period with the previous month, no?

 

This is such a small piece of thing but because of not clear explanation, it is taking way too long, or maybe I'm not getting it.

 

Read this post to get your answer quickly.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

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    5 years ago

     

    If you take the above example , imagine the values under the observations column are values that may occur each month a number of times (random). If the current month is october 2020, I want to compare the count for each value for this month to the previous month, with the ultimate goal of creating  a measure of relative change in order of magnitude.