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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Year on Year Difference

Hi @all, Is it possible to create a measure to find variance in PowerBI like below?  
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Ashish_Mathur
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3 years ago

Hi,

Assuming you have a Calendar Table and the dates in the row labels are from th Calendar Table, try this DAX pattern

=calculate([Total],datesbetween(Calendar[date],MAXX(allselected(Calendar),calendar[date]),MAXX(allselected(Calendar),calendar[date]))-calculate([Total],datesbetween(Calendar[date],minx(allselected(Calendar),calendar[date]),minx(allselected(Calendar),calendar[date]))

 

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Hi Ashish,
I really appreciate your solution. Unfortunately, I'm experiencing an error: "A function 'DATESBETWEEN' has been used in a True/False expression that is used as a table filter expression. This is not allowed"

CALCULATE ( [Net Debt], DATESBETWEEN ( DimValdate[ValDate], MAXX ( ALLSELECTED ( DimValdate ), DimValdate[ValDate] ), MAXX ( ALLSELECTED ( DimValdate ), DimValdate[ValDate] ) ) - CALCULATE ( [Net Debt], DATESBETWEEN ( DimValdate[ValDate], MINX ( ALLSELECTED ( DimValdate ), DimValdate[ValDate] ), MINX ( ALLSELECTED ( DimValdate ), DimValdate[ValDate] ) ) ) )
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    Ashish_Mathur
    Super User
    3 years ago

    You are welcome.  There should be another closing bracket before the - sign and remove one closing bracket from he end.

    If it still does not work, then share the download link of the PBI file.

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      Anonymous
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      3 years ago

      Hi Ashish,
      The modified formula did work but unfortunately didn't achieve what was actually expected.
      Rows: ValDate (i.e Dec & June)
      Columns: Fiscal Year (FY23, FY24,....)
      Value: Net Debt(measure) , Net Debt Variance