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3 years ago
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Using a relative date as a parameter in Paginated reports

I need to schedule exports of reports in excel/csv to external vendors and partners. These reports are sent at the beginning of each monthly with the prior month’s data as an excel sheet attachment t...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    My solution was to create another column called Prior Month and then populate it with the Power Query function of =Date.IsInPreviousMonth([DATE FIELD]). I then use a filter/parameter where that column = Y. Not the path I thought, but it works...for now 😉

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Anonymous
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2 years ago

My solution was to create another column called Prior Month and then populate it with the Power Query function of =Date.IsInPreviousMonth([DATE FIELD]). I then use a filter/parameter where that column = Y. Not the path I thought, but it works...for now 😉

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rachaelwalker
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2 years ago

That is the path I took too. I created flags for each scenario (previous month, ytd, ftyd) then combined those values into one column (YTD | FTYD). From there I created a parameter that specifies the values Previous Month, YTD, FTYD. Then added a parameter/filter that says to filter data based on if Parameter value is found in my combined column. 😅 Lots of trial and error but I think it is working