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[sovereignauto]

Good Afternoon,

I am trying to create a measure to get one month less from the Min date so: 

dateadd(MIN(hire[start_date]),-1,MONTH) 

But im getting not correct type for the Min(hire[start_date]) section.

How do i correct this? 

Thank you 

[v-cgao-msft]

Hi @sovereignauto ,

What do you expect this code to return? 

DATEADD returns a table with a set of dates. And the first parameter is the entity column
The full formula is what MIN(hire[start_date]) may return here is the minimum value of [start_date] in the current filtering context.

If you expect to return a date, try the EDATE function.

 try like:

= EDATE(MIN('hire'[start_date]),-1)

or the smallest of all dates:

= EDATE(CALCULATE(MIN('hire'[start_date]),ALL()),-1)

Best Regards,
Gao
Community Support Team

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[PaulDBrown]

Do you have a date table?

do you need the result of the measure to be an actual date?

[sovereignauto]

Yes i have a Datetable

the result of the measure would end up being 90% of a count of hire starts from the previous month 

[PaulDBrown]

What is the Min date supposed to be calculating?

What is the structure of the data?

[sovereignauto]

So i have a table of hire start dates (with other information) 

and im dropping months into the columns of a Matrix 

So what i want to do is get the Min of the column (so basically start of that given month) and then minus 1 month from that.