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auxilio99357
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5 years ago
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SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR()

Hello!!!   I´m building a sales report and have a problem with time intelligence mesures.  on the report i have two data tables, the first one is a sales table with the following columns: client/d...
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  • BA_Pete's avatar
    BA_Pete
    5 years ago

    Hi auxilio99357 ,

     

    The previous code I supplied for DAX and Power Query M were both intended to be new columns in your calendar table, not measures.

     

    For your specific scenario i.e. sales only go up to two months ago, I would recommend adding a relative month column into your calendar table, something like this:

     

    DAX

     

    _relativeMonth = 
(YEAR(DimDates[Date]) * 12 + MONTH(DimDates[Date])) - (YEAR(TODAY()) * 12 + MONTH(TODAY()))

     

     

    PQ M

     

    (Date.Year([Date]) * 12 + Date.Month([Date])) - (Date.Year(DateTime.LocalNow()) * 12 + Date.Month(DateTime.LocalNow()))

     

     

    The usage of this in a measure would look something like this:

     

    LYTD = 
CALCULATE(
  SUM(Sales[U_Liq]),
  SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(DimDates[Date]),
  DimDates[relativeMonth] <= -2
)

     

     

    Pete

auxilio99357's avatar
auxilio99357
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Hi, @BA_Pete !!

 

When trying to add the field I think I understood why all the time intelligent measures don´t work as I expect. My Sales table will always contain the value of sales up to two months before the current day. 

 

So now I want to create a 'CurrentDay' with the condition that the current day is two months from the actual current day.

 

To do that I'm trying to adapt the 'CurrentDay' field you specified. 

First I wanted to create the field exactly as you wrote it by adding a new measure to the DimDates table and by adding a new table. In both times, when when I wrote the code, I couldn´t write "DimDates[Date]" after the IF funtion.

 

Is this correct or did I misunderstand?

 

Thank you 

😊

 

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BA_Pete
Super User
5 years ago

Hi auxilio99357 ,

 

The previous code I supplied for DAX and Power Query M were both intended to be new columns in your calendar table, not measures.

 

For your specific scenario i.e. sales only go up to two months ago, I would recommend adding a relative month column into your calendar table, something like this:

 

DAX

 

_relativeMonth = 
(YEAR(DimDates[Date]) * 12 + MONTH(DimDates[Date])) - (YEAR(TODAY()) * 12 + MONTH(TODAY()))

 

 

PQ M

 

(Date.Year([Date]) * 12 + Date.Month([Date])) - (Date.Year(DateTime.LocalNow()) * 12 + Date.Month(DateTime.LocalNow()))

 

 

The usage of this in a measure would look something like this:

 

LYTD = 
CALCULATE(
  SUM(Sales[U_Liq]),
  SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(DimDates[Date]),
  DimDates[relativeMonth] <= -2
)

 

 

Pete

  • auxilio99357's avatar
    auxilio99357
    Frequent Visitor
    5 years ago

    Thank you @BA_Pete !!

     

    I manage to solve most of the issues by adding that column

     

    Regards 🙂

    Auxilio99357