Project
Cost
January
323
Feb
323
I have a table as followed seen above which ROW is month (filtered by a certain project) and values are cost of the project. I want to calcuate the difference between two months, but I am having trouble.
How do I subtract two rows from each other.
In the code I wrote:
Variance = [Cost] - CALCULATE([Cost],PREVIOUSMONTH('Month'[Month))
I get the following error, A column specified in the call to function is not of type date.
Is there a way to manual subtract two months?
The best way to do it is to replace your month with an actual Date value. The first of the month for example. The you should be able to do something like this assuming your month dates are unique: If they are not unique you should create a Dates table (See Microsoft's Guidance on date table) and join.
variance = [Cost] - Calculate([COST],(PARALLELPERIOD(Month[Month],-1,Month)
You can use EARLIER function here but, only when the Months have an Id. Such as
1 Jan
2 Feb
3 March
...
Link for details
However, I would suggest creating a date table and then having a relationship from the date table to your table. By using date table you can easily achieve using in-buit date functions.
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In a Report Builder table I have to show the value from the last day of the given month, when the month is not expanded.
When the month is expanded, the dates have to show the specific value for that day.
Example is January with values 1 to 31 (same as the day numbers):
When January is expanded, it has to show value 1 on Jan 1.... value 15 on Jan 15... value 31 on Jan 31.
When contracted (and the table only show one row for January), it should show the last day's value of 31
Some months do not have values on all days, so the formula just need to take the last value of that given month
When I use the formula "Last()", then it works half of the time, while for some months, the value extracted is the 3rd or 4th last day of the month - do you know what is wrong here?
Hope above makes sense, and thanks for help.
I think I fixed it my self:
Using Last () formula
Learning how to make a sort order in my Union All dataset, so it came out in the right way
How to give points to my self?
I have a simple date table (marked as a Date Table)
the Date column is native to it, the rest are calculated columns.
This issue will be about these of them:
Month Name = FORMAT(Dates[Date], "Mmmm")
Month = Month(Dates[Date])
Both set to "Don't summarize".
I dropped them into value field of a visual out of curiousity, and a curious thing happened - despite "don't summarize" they took MIN form of value to display, but Month Name came out incorrect.
Image 1: 3 out of 4 lines in the column First Month Name are wrong, unlike Month which is fine.
Image 2: added Date to the row fields to check - line by line it's fine, but subtotal still wrong:
Image 3: I filtered Month Name in data view for February, to see which lines are for Month value of 1 - there is none.
This is a blank new report, no measures, no filters - that's all it is.
If someone can explain why this happens, thanks in advance
The columns with "Earliest"/"First"/"Min" are summarizing because they are implicit measures in a matrix visual. Since there are multiple months in one quarter it has to aggregate somehow.
The month name is a text field, so it sorts alphabetically by default. If you want it to sort by month number instead, you can use the Sort by Column feature to sort Month Name by Month.
i All.
I have created below measure to reflects always 3 month figures when month slicer is used.
3R =
CALCULATE(COUNT('Order'[Order/ not ordered]),DATESINPERIOD('Date'[Date],LASTDATE('Date'[Date]),-3,MONTH)))
However, when I try to add salesman figures as filter with below formula, and click to month slicer it is directly show just choosen month figures not 3 months.
3R John =
CALCULATE(COUNT('Order'[Order/ notordered])
,DATESINPERIOD('Date'[Date],LASTDATE('Date'[Date]),-3,MONTH),FILTER('Order','Order'[Salesman]="John")))
on below link I have shared a sample for this. there are 2 different table and 1 matrix.
Matrix is named working and 1 of the table is named as "not working properly". not selecting any value on slicer. all data gives same data. however when clicked month slicer not named main table is changing and this is correct. also matrix is correct but table that I am trying to achive is not working.
What i am trying to achive is, 3 month roling data based on customer and salesman. when click for example 1 on month slicer table should give January 2020, December 2019 and November 2019 figures.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LoqSiKhHMFn_OioI2RnXOzjcIL9dPRjS/view?usp=sharing
below is the solution. worked for me.
3R John =CALCULATE(COUNT('Order'[Order/notordered]),DATESINPERIOD('Date'[Date],LASTDATE('Date'[Date]),-3,MONTH),'Order'[Salesman]="John"))
just remove filter('order', section and it is ok now.
I have a report that takes sales data from a few tables. I want to add a field that will divide the total sales for the given month by the total number of business days in that same month. Is there a way I can calculate that in an expression? Do I need to create a new table in the database specifically for months and their number of business days? How should I go about this?
Thank you
Intuitively, I would say that you need a simple function and a table.
The table is to host the exceptions like Independence day, labor day, etc.
The function will get two parameters: Month and Year (I'm not providing any sample code since you haven't specified which language you are using).
It will then build a date as yyyy-mm-01 (meaning, first day of the month). If will then loop from 2 to 31 and:
Create a new date by adding the index of the loop to the initial date,
Check if the resulting date is still within the month,
Check if it is a working or not working day (e.g. Sunday),
Check if it is found within the table of exceptions.
If the created date passes all the above tests, you add 1 to the counter.
Though it might look complex, it is not and it will provide you the correct answer regardless of the month (e.g. Feb.) and the year (leap or not).
I've been at this one a while.
Objective: Pivot a monthly summary of days worked by Resource within the range for that Resource line where those dates (from StartDate to EndDate) correspond to the Dates table IsWorkday field.
Thanks for your help!
It depends on how you define what a workday is. I suspect this is Monday thru Friday? If so, try the weekday function.
=WEEKDAY(serial_number,2)
Where serial_number is the cell with a date you want to identify. This would not exclude holidays, I would recommend an index/match on some holiday reference table for that.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/WEEKDAY-function-60e44483-2ed1-439f-8bd0-e404c190949a