Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Get certified in Microsoft Fabric—for free! For a limited time, the Microsoft Fabric Community team will be offering free DP-600 exam vouchers. Prepare now

Reply
alextarki
Helper I
Helper I

Value of previous month YYYYMM

Dear All, 

 

I have the following task that I kindly ask you to help me with :

column YYYYMM , values across months

Column YYYYMM is separated from date. 

I want to calculate the value of previous month YYYYMM-1 and show it on the chart

PREVIOUS month doesnt help me as its based on date 

 

 

chart10.jpg

 

Thanks

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

HI @alextarki,

You can try this measure formula if it meets your requirement:

Measure =
VAR currYM =
    MAX ( Table[YearMonth] )
VAR prevDate =
    DATE ( LEFT ( currYM, 4 ), RIGHT ( currYM, 2 ) - 1, 1 )
VAR prevYM =
    YEAR ( prevDate ) * 100
        + MONTH ( prevDate )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( Table[Amount] ),
        FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( Table ), [YearMonth] = prevYM )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

View solution in original post

4 REPLIES 4
theDarkPrince
Advocate II
Advocate II

Did this work for anyone ? I have tried the suggested measure definition exactly but still getting BLANKs for all the months. Been searching about this for a couple of days now. I am unabe to use PREVIOUSMONTH() becasue I do not have a proper date column with contiguous dates.

az38
Community Champion
Community Champion

@alextarki  hi

previous month you can find as

DATE(LEFT([Column], 4), RIGHT([Column], 2)-1, 1)

 


do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution
LinkedIn

Thanks

 

How can I build the entire previous month value?

HI @alextarki,

You can try this measure formula if it meets your requirement:

Measure =
VAR currYM =
    MAX ( Table[YearMonth] )
VAR prevDate =
    DATE ( LEFT ( currYM, 4 ), RIGHT ( currYM, 2 ) - 1, 1 )
VAR prevYM =
    YEAR ( prevDate ) * 100
        + MONTH ( prevDate )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( Table[Amount] ),
        FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( Table ), [YearMonth] = prevYM )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

Helpful resources

Announcements
OCT PBI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - October 2024

Check out the October 2024 Power BI update to learn about new features.

September Hackathon Carousel

Microsoft Fabric & AI Learning Hackathon

Learn from experts, get hands-on experience, and win awesome prizes.

October NL Carousel

Fabric Community Update - October 2024

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric Community.