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michaelstone
Helper I
7 years ago
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Strange behaviour with SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR

Hi,   I'm building a Power BI report which is analysing PoS transaction data so have a fact table (Transactions) with every individual transaction including timestamp and sales amount (Transactions...
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  • v-piga-msft's avatar
    v-piga-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi michaelstone ,

    Sorry for my mistake.

    Please modify the measure Total Sales - Previous Year  like below.

    Total Sales - Previous Year =
SUMX (
    'Calendar',
    CALCULATE ( [Total Sales], SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR ( 'Calendar'[Date] ) )
)

    Here is the output.

    Best  Regards,

    Cherry

     

     

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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
7 years ago

Hi michaelstone ,

By my test and research based on your pbix, I'm afraid that you should create the table with the date column from Calendar table like below so that you could get the correct output.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

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suryaburaboyina
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Hi,

 

It is working fine wheni tried, if didnot set the Date columns with same format please do that.

 

Below is hte screenshot for same.

 

 

mark it correct, if its useful.

 

Thanks,

Surya Teja

  • michaelstone's avatar
    michaelstone
    Helper I
    7 years ago

    Hi suryaburaboyina ,

     

    I don't understand what you mean by "did not set Date column with same format".

     

    As per my instructions, the problem only occurs when you include the last day of data in the slicer i.e. 17 July 2019.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Michael