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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Validate Slicer Selection

Hello   I have a period column in a table that I am using as a slicer. It is of type date and I am using it as a Date Hierarchy.  I need to validate if the user selected the same number of months ...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    5 years ago

    Anonymous here you go, add following measure

    Month Selected = 
VAR __year = 
SUMMARIZE ( 
    'Calendar', [Year], "@Months", CONCATENATEX ( VALUES ( 'Calendar'[Month] ), [Month], "," ) 
)
VAR __status =
IF ( COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) ) = 1, -1,
    COUNTX ( 
        SUMMARIZE ( __year, [@Months], "@Rowcount", COUNTROWS ( __year ) ), [@Rowcount] 
    ) 
)
RETURN
SWITCH ( 
    __status,
    1, "Valid Selection", 
    -1, "Invalid Selecton - Only months selected in one year",
    "Invalid Selection - not same months selected"
)

     

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parry2k
Super User
5 years ago

Anonymous one question. what happens if the user selects Jan/Feb in 2019 and Nov/Dec in 2020, still the user selected two months in both of the years but these are different months? Is this the right selection or month selection have to be the same for each year or just the count of month matter, not the actual months?

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Anonymous
Not applicable
5 years ago

has to be the same months. basically i am trying to validate that a user compares the same periods, for some specific scenario. thank you