cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Fabric is Generally Available. Browse Fabric Presentations. Work towards your Fabric certification with the Cloud Skills Challenge.

Reply
vpatel55
Kudo Commander
Kudo Commander

Shifting dates one year back

I am trying to shift a column of dates by one year.  I have tried SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR, PARALLELLPERIOD and DATEADD. I want to avoid simply subtracting 365 days.

 

They all return the error "The True / False express does not specify a column. Each True / False expressions used as a table filter must refer to exactly the one column.

 

However, I have used SELECTCOLUMNS to isolate the one column.

 

This is intended to work as follows. The start date and yesterdays date of the current year are stored in variables StartDate and YesterdayDate. Next, a calculated table with these dates are stored in MtdTable. I then use SELECTCOLUMNS to isolate just the date column in the calculated table. This is then used within PARALELLPERIOD.

 

Right answer gets a Kudo 🙂

 

 

Expression =
VAR ThisMonthStartDate =
    DATE ( YEAR ( TODAY () ), MONTH ( TODAY () ), 1 )
VAR StartDate =
    IF ( DAY ( TODAY () ) > 1, ThisMonthStartDate, EOMONTH ( TODAY (), -2 ) + 1 )
VAR YesterdayDate =
    TODAY () - 1
VAR MtdTable =
    FILTER (
        ALL ( dimCalendar ),
        dimCalendar[Date] <= YesterdayDate
            && dimCalendar[Date] >= StartDate
    )
VAR SelectDateColumnOnly =
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( MtdTable, "Date", VALUES ( dimCalendar[Date] ) )
VAR ShiftToLastYear =
    CALCULATE ( PARALLELPERIOD ( SelectDateColumnOnly, -1, YEAR ) )
VAR _Calculation =
    CALCULATE ( [Expression], ShiftToLastYear )
RETURN
    _Calculation

 

 

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

@amitchandak pointed me in the right direction such that I could use the inbuilt time shifting functions but ignoring the current day. I'm including this post too if anyone finds it useful, as I wanted MTD last year, but ingoring the current day. Here is the code for that:

 

 

MTD previous year = 
VAR _max =
    TODAY () - 1
VAR _min =
    EOMONTH ( _max, -1 ) + 1
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        [Expression)],
        DATEADD ( DATESBETWEEN ( dimCalendar[Date], _min, _max ), -1, YEAR )
    )

 

 

View solution in original post

5 REPLIES 5
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@vpatel55 , I doubt correct usage. Always use date tbale

refer examples

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 year MTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESMTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-12,MONTH)))

YTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESYTD('Date'[Date],"12/31"))
Last YTD Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),DATESYTD(dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Year),"12/31"))

 

Year behind Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),dateadd('Date'[Date],-1,Year))
Year behind Sales = CALCULATE(SUM(Sales[Sales Amount]),SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('Date'[Date]))

Hi @amitchandak I'm afraid I can't easily use the inbuilt MTD functions because our data is one day behind. So on the 1st day of the month, it needs to refer to the whole of the previous month. Only on the 2nd of the month, should it start reporting for the current month. So I need to shift my StartDate and YesterdayDate dates. Any ideas?

@vpatel55 , try this

 

MTD a day before =
var _max = if(isfiltered('Date'),MAX( 'Date'[Date]) , today())-1
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1 ,
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))

 

or

 

MTD a day before =
var _max = if(isfiltered('Date'),MAXX(allselected('Date'), 'Date'[Date]) , today())-1
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1 ,
return
CALCULATE([net] ,DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],_min,_max))

 

You can also check

https://medium.com/chandakamit/cheat-sheet-power-bi-time-intelligence-formulas-using-today-654f26e27...

Hi @amitchandak thanks for your response, I think we are nearly there, The top formula returned back some of today's numbers, which I wanted to avoid. However, removing the ISFILTERED and MAX date solves that, and brings the correct answer:

 

Expression = 
var _max = today()-1
var _min = eomonth(_max,-1)+1
return
CALCULATE([Measure] ,DATESBETWEEN(dimCalendar[Date],_min,_max))

 Can you confirm that I have not ruined this so that it will still show the complete previous month on the 1st of the month, and it will still not begin counting this months numbers until the 2nd of the month (but always excluding the current day)?

 

Thanks again.

@amitchandak pointed me in the right direction such that I could use the inbuilt time shifting functions but ignoring the current day. I'm including this post too if anyone finds it useful, as I wanted MTD last year, but ingoring the current day. Here is the code for that:

 

 

MTD previous year = 
VAR _max =
    TODAY () - 1
VAR _min =
    EOMONTH ( _max, -1 ) + 1
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        [Expression)],
        DATEADD ( DATESBETWEEN ( dimCalendar[Date], _min, _max ), -1, YEAR )
    )

 

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
PBI November 2023 Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - November 2023

Check out the November 2023 Power BI update to learn about new features.

Community News

Fabric Community News unified experience

Read the latest Fabric Community announcements, including updates on Power BI, Synapse, Data Factory and Data Activator.

Dashboard in a day with date

Exclusive opportunity for Women!

Join us for a free, hands-on Microsoft workshop led by women trainers for women where you will learn how to build a Dashboard in a Day!

Power BI Fabric Summit Carousel

The largest Power BI and Fabric virtual conference

130+ sessions, 130+ speakers, Product managers, MVPs, and experts. All about Power BI and Fabric. Attend online or watch the recordings.

Top Solution Authors
Top Kudoed Authors