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imranami
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6 years ago
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SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR for Fiscal year

Hello. I have a Date table with a one to many join to a date field in a sales table. The Date table has a column which identifies the correct financial year for each date (FY18, FY19, FY20). The fina...
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    6 years ago

    Looks the guidance provided in this article has resolved the issue using the below article (Russo & Ferrari).

     

    https://www.daxpatterns.com/time-patterns/

     

    Added an additional date column to my table which subtracts the current date by one year:

    PY Date = DATE(YEAR(Dates[Date])-1,MONTH(Dates[Date]),DAY(Dates[Date]))

    Then used the following DAX to return the sales amount from the previous year:
     
    Total Value Previous Year =
    CALCULATE (
    [Total Sales],
    FILTER (
    ALL ( Dates ),
    Dates[Year] = MAX ( Dates[Year])-1
    && Dates[Date] <= MAX ( Dates[PY Date] )
    ))