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Time intelligence connected to date table with non date coumn

Hi,    I have several date tables in my datamodel and to connect the facts table with a date tabel I use dateIDs. It seems that I cannot use time intelligence in this case.  Is this correct? Do I...
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    amitchandak
    6 years ago

    Anonymous , there are only a few calculations where is important to mark it as date table. I have checked you can mark multiple tables as date tables.

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amitchandak
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6 years ago

Anonymous , as long as you have continuous dates time intelligence will work.

 

To get the best of the time intelligence function. Make sure you have a date calendar and it has been marked as the date in model view. Also, join it with the date column of your fact/s. Refer :
https://radacad.com/creating-calendar-table-in-power-bi-using-dax-functions
https://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/creating-date-table-power-bi
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/creating-a-simple-date-table-in-dax/

See if my webinar on Time Intelligence can help: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Webinars-and-Video-Gallery/PowerBI-Time-Intelligence-Calendar-WTD-YTD-LYTD-Week-Over-Week/m-p/1051626#M184


Appreciate your Kudos.