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jausting
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8 years ago

12 Month Sales

Hi

 

I have created a measure to sum sales over past 12 months, before August 2017

 

I want the measure to calculate the previous 12 month sales from a date that is selected in a slicer (Dates Table0

 

Measure = CALCULATE(sum(EOM_STK[Sales]), 'EOM_STK'[perioddate]<=DATE(2017, 08, 1) && 'EOM_STK'[perioddate]>=DATE(2016, 09, 1))

 

Dates table

 

Year   Month  FilterDate

2017  01         2017-01-01

2017  02         2017-02-01

etc

 

if I substitue the dates for the date slicer, I get the error message that the expression contains multiple columns but only a single column can be used in a true/false expression. What am I doing wrong?

Need Help

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    • jausting's avatar
      jausting
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Hi,

       

      Apologies for the delay in responding. Filter was the solution, just wasnt sure how to use it.

       

      This was my solution for the sales over 12 months, I had a slicer to select the end period

       

      var curDateStr = CALCULATE ( MIN ( Dates2[FilterDate] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Dates2, Dates2[FilterDate] ) )
      var curDate = DATE(LEFT(curDateStr,4),VALUE(MID(curDateStr,6,2)),RIGHT(curDateStr,1))
      VAR DateAddAlternative = EDATE(curDate,-MonthsToLookBack)
      return
      CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'EOM_STK'[SOH] ), FILTER(EOM_STK,
                                                          EOM_STK[perioddate]=curDate
      ))