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amalrio
Helper V
Helper V

Start and end date of the current Quarter

Hi DAX Masters, 

 

  I have a requirement to find the Start and End Date of the current quater,

 

for instance

for this quater it should be StartDay = 1/7/2021 and EndDate = 30/9/2021

 

this needs to be calculated dynamically based on the current date as measures. 

 

Thanks a lot in advance

 

Regards

Amal Eranda

 

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Simple enough,

Screenshot 2021-09-06 015430.png

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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I was assuming the OP did not have a date table.  Do you know of a way to do it without one, using just TODAY()?

 

Edit: @amalrio if you do have a dates table then @CNENFRNL measures are the way to go.

 

Start of QTR = CALCULATE ( STARTOFQUARTER ( Dates[Date] ), Dates[Date] = TODAY() )
End of QTR = CALCULATE ( ENDOFQUARTER ( Dates[Date] ), Dates[Date] = TODAY() )

 

 

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amalrio
Helper V
Helper V

Hello all the experts, I am really thankful for all of your sugessions. yes I do have a date and my DAX knowladge was not mature enough @CNENFRNL  thanks a lot.

 

If I have the opprotunity I would accept both answers as the solution but in this case I will accept @jdbuchanan71  as he has both the method covered, 

 

Thanks a lot @CNENFRNL  agian. 

@amalrio 

You can accept more than one post as the solution so I also accepted the post from @CNENFRNL.  You should give it a kudos as well.  Thank you.

CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

There are out-of-the-box time intelligence functions in DAX, STARTOFQUARTER/ENDOFQUARTER.


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

@CNENFRNL 

How did you use them with TODAY()?

Simple enough,

Screenshot 2021-09-06 015430.png

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

I was assuming the OP did not have a date table.  Do you know of a way to do it without one, using just TODAY()?

 

Edit: @amalrio if you do have a dates table then @CNENFRNL measures are the way to go.

 

Start of QTR = CALCULATE ( STARTOFQUARTER ( Dates[Date] ), Dates[Date] = TODAY() )
End of QTR = CALCULATE ( ENDOFQUARTER ( Dates[Date] ), Dates[Date] = TODAY() )

 

 

BTW,

SoQ = DATE( YEAR( TODAY() ), ( QUARTER( TODAY() ) - 1 ) * 3 + 1, 1 )
EoQ = DATE( YEAR( TODAY() ), QUARTER( TODAY() ) * 3 + 1, 1 ) - 1

Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

Ah nice, using QUARTER, I like it.

By chance, I found some UNINTUITIVE arguments like DATE(2021,-1,33) and DATE(2021,13,-1) are valid; share with you guys, cheers!

Enjoy DAX!


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

jdbuchanan71
Super User
Super User

@amalrio 

The start of the quarter for the current date can be calculated like this.

 

Start of quarter =
VAR _Today = TODAY ()
RETURN 
    DATE ( YEAR ( _Today ), ROUNDUP ( DIVIDE ( MONTH ( _Today ), 3 ), 0 ) * 3 - 2, 1 )

 

 

Then then end of the quarter is like done like this.

 

End of quarter = EOMONTH ( [Start of quarter], 2 )

 

 

jdbuchanan71_1-1630848681536.png

 

 

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