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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
    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 so you will select a month to compare, correct? if there is no month selected, should it return blank() or use the current month. You have to think thru this and explain all of it. I don't like half baked solutions.

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

I have created 2 measures:

 

Current Month - provides total count for each value in a column for the current month

previous month - provides total count for each value in a column for the directly preceeding month 

 

Difference: Current month - previous month 

 

Currently the [previous month] measure is just returning the exact same results as if I want to count from the beginning to the end period. That shouldnt be what it does.