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Frequent Visitor

9 years ago

Specify custom month for DATESMTD function in DAX

Hello, Can we mention any random month name in DATESMTD function for which we can calculate total sales? Please suggest. Thanks in Advance.

Resident Rockstar

9 years ago

Ya we can add , Try like this it will help u i hope so,

Measure = CALCULATE(Sum (Sales), DATESMTD(DATEADD(calender[Date],2,MONTH))))

Try this, here i was added two more month in my Current date.

Frequent Visitor

9 years ago

Thanks Baskar, for the example.

Measure = CALCULATE(Sum (Sales), DATESMTD(DATEADD(calender[Date],2,MONTH))))

But I need to mention any random month name. Here, we see that it is adding 2 months to the current month.

And while calculation, I wouldn't be knowing the relevance i.e. how many months it is before or after current month.

e.g. User selects May 2016 and that should be passed in the DAX to calculate total sales in May.

Please suggest.

Baskar
Resident Rockstar
9 years ago
Cool dude,

see basically dax work with your case only.

If u select "MOnthname " in slicer it will show only may month sales know ?

Calculate(Sum(Sales))
- techiebee
  Frequent Visitor
  9 years ago
  Okay thanks.
  
  Just another question:
  
  Will DATESYTD function work in the same way?
  I mean if I select May in slicer, then will that give total starting from current fiscal year till May only?
  - Eric_Zhang
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago
    techiebee wrote:
    
    Okay thanks.
    
    Just another question:
    
    Will DATESYTD function work in the same way?
    
    I mean if I select May in slicer, then will that give total starting from current fiscal year till May only?
    
    Slicer is not working that way, though you can use an expression like MAX(dateUsedInSlicer) to get a selected date though. What is the point of the "random" month? You could specify a date range in the slicer and the DATESYTD would work accordingly.