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nicoams
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6 years ago
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Previousmonth

Hi guys!   I'm having trouble understanding how previousmonth works with slicers.   As you can see on the pictures below, it shows "Em branco" ("Blank" in portuguese) when I filter by segmentatio...
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  • vivran22's avatar
    vivran22
    6 years ago

    Hello nicoams 

     

    My understanding is that in the slicer you have used Month in text format. And in your calendar you will have multiple values for Jan, Feb, etc. When you are selecting Apr from the slicer, the return table will give apr of 2019 & 2020 as well, but for PREVIOUSMONTH, it requires one date as an input.

     

    Same is not happening when you are selecting it from the table visual, as you have year included in the visual. When you select Apr in the table visual, it is essentially selecting Apr of 2020, hence you are getting the result.

     

    May I suggest

    • either you use an additional slicer for Year along with Month, or add Year in the slicer
    • or you can use a month(in date format) in the slicer

     

    Cheers!

    Vivek


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amitchandak
Super User
6 years ago

nicoams , I am not able to get what is wrong here. As you are taking Month year from the calendar , the correct context of the month has been taken and previous value us shown. Your filter of the month will only work on dimensions other than the date.

So if you view by say city then you will only see April vs March if you have selected April.

 

Other option to explore with date calendar

MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD('Date'[Date]))
last MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,MONTH)))
last MTD (complete) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFMONTH(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,MONTH))))
last year MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH)))
last year MTD (complete) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFMONTH(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH))))
Month behind Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Month))
last QTR same Month (complete) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFMONTH(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Qtr))))
MTD (Year End) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFYEAR('Date'[Date])))
MTD (Last Year End) Sales =  CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(ENDOFYEAR(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH),"8/31")))
Year behind Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Year))
  • nicoams's avatar
    nicoams
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    Hi there.

    The problem was I was filtering the month, but the data has more than one year, so the lack of this information made it not show what I wanted.

    Thank you very much for your reply and the options (mindblowing, I didn't knew there were so many ways to do it), I will save it to study them later. 

    Best regards.