Using fiscal year to display calendar date with previous period last year

[menphis21]

Hi Everyone,

I have a graph that display the collection amount by year/Month with the amount of previous period and and the % variation as a line.

Now i need to change the filter calendar date to the fiscal date.

i have a table where i have my calendar date and the conversion.

I am using for the Collection amount previous period this formula :

Collection Amount N-1 = CALCULATE([Collection Amount],SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('Date table'[Date].[Date]))

For the % variation i am using : 

Collection Mom amount = ([Collection Amount]-[Collection Amount N-1])/[Collection Amount N-1]

In the filter, i have the fiscal date. In the graph, i am displaying the calendar date (hierarchy date) and previous period and current period.

But its not showing me what i supposed to see.

Thanks for the help

[menphis21]

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Thank for helping 🙂

[AllisonKennedy]

@menphis21  That's looking correct. What happens when you select 2023 in the filter for fiscal year? It just looks like you don't have data for 2021 in the report, and you need to choose the current fiscal year, not the previous one for the filter context.

[menphis21]

Hi @AllisonKennedy ,

Thank you. Yes i have data for 2021.

When i remove the selection on the filter, i see that : 

In the model, the collection table and date table are related with the calendar date.
The fiscal date is build on base of Fiscal Month and fiscal Year so the date is repeated inside the month.

[AllisonKennedy]

@menphis21  Yes, so if you select Fiscal Year 2023 you should see data for both Current Period and Collection Amount N-1. 

It's just a matter of keeping straight what 2023 fiscal year means for calendar dates in your visual.

[menphis21]

Hi @AllisonKennedy ,

Its not solving the problem.

What i did finally :

The calendar that i created from collection table is based on field Year and month.

On the beginning, i created date like #date([Year],[Month],1).

But with that date linked to dimcalendar, the function dateadd and sameperiodlast year didnt work as seen before.

What i did, i created a new date #date([Year],[Month],15) and now the table collection is linked on this date and now the function dateadd works only.

the calendar date can be related to 2 fiscal month in the same time.

but i dont understand why its a problem

[AllisonKennedy]

@menphis21  It shouldn't matter whether you use 1st or 15th of the month (except for when you want the actuals to display). 

Your screenshot without the Fiscal Date filter looks to be working perfectly: 

You can see the circled bit has data for both Current period and 'Collection Amount N-1'. The Underlined bit only has data for 'Collection Amount N-1' because we don't have current (actual) data for this period yet, so we can only see what was happening last year. That 9.0M is an easy one to look at - you can see that matches the 'Current Period' for June 2022 and the 'Collection Amount N-1' for June 2023.

You can only have 1 active relationship between dates at a time with 1 date table. To get around this you need to use USERELATIONSHIP with inactive relationship or add another date table.