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wfreeman
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5 years ago
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Time analysis in Paginated reports

I am looking for a little help creating a paginated report.  I am doing analyitics on police activity, looking to show percentage of change between a selected month and the month prior.  I would like...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi wfreeman 

    I build a sample for you, you may refer to the data model and code in this sample.

    Calendar table:

    Calendar =
VAR _T1 =
    ADDCOLUMNS (
        CALENDARAUTO (),
        "Year", YEAR ( [Date] ),
        "Month", MONTH ( [Date] ),
        "YearMonth",
            YEAR ( [Date] ) * 100
                + MONTH ( [Date] )
    )
VAR _T2 =
    ADDCOLUMNS ( _T1, "RANK", RANKX ( _T1, [YearMonth],, ASC, DENSE ) )
RETURN
    _T2

    Relate Date column with Date column in your Fact table.

    Measures:

    Last Month Value = 
CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Value]),PREVIOUSMONTH('Calendar'[Date]))
    Change Percentage = 
VAR _Change = SUM('Table'[Value]) - [Last Month Value]
RETURN
DIVIDE(_Change,[Last Month Value])

    Result is as below.

    You may refer to this blog to build measures in Paginated reports.

    For reference:

    Create a paginated report based on a Power BI shared dataset

    How to use measures in power bi report builder which was created in Power Bi dataset

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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wfreeman
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Thank you for the reply.  My data model does contain a date table already, do I need to still add the date table in your example? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    5 years ago

    Hi wfreeman 

    Here I build a date table is to show you that you need a continuous date table to use time intelligence function like "PREVIOUMONTH" in your report. If you already have a related date table with continuous date, you can use this one directly. If the dates in your date table aren't continuous, build a date table by my way.

    For reference: Get the DAX query for the dataset

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.