Always select the page-level filter for the previous completed month

[Syndicate_Admin]

Hello Team,

I want page-level filter that will auomate the selection month process which is the previous completed month.

for example, the current month is May 2020.

But I want page-level filter that can select April 2020 whenever the data udpates.

righ now I have manual selection of year and month.

Best regards

Aditya Vighne

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Syndicate_Admin 

I think you want to show values in Previous month.

You can build a unrelated calendar table , build a slicer by this calendar table and create a filter measure for your visual.

I build a sample table with values from 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30.

Calendar Table:

Calendar = 
ADDCOLUMNS(CALENDARAUTO(),"Year",YEAR([Date]),"Month",MONTH([Date]),"MonthName",FORMAT([Date],"MMMM"))

Measure:

Measure = 
VAR _CurrentlastDay = MAX('Calendar'[Date])
VAR _PreviousStart = EOMONTH(_CurrentlastDay,-2)+1
VAR _PreviousEnd = EOMONTH(_CurrentlastDay,-1)
Return
IF(AND(MAX('Sample'[Date])>=_PreviousStart,MAX(Sample[Date])<=_PreviousEnd),1,0)

Add this measure into filter field in your visual and set this measure to show item when value =1.

Result is as below.

By default your visual will show blank.

Select 2020 May as current Month, visual will return values in previous month 2020 April.

Best Regards,

Rico Zhou

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[amitchandak]

@Syndicate_Admin , Create a new column in you date table and select Last Month and save

Month Type = Switch( True(),
eomonth([Date],0) = eomonth(Today(),-1),"Last Month" ,
eomonth([Date],0)= eomonth(Today(),0),"This Month" ,
Format([Date],"MMM-YYYY")
)

Or do this for both year and month

Year Type = Switch( True(),
eomonth([Date],0) = eomonth(Today(),-1),"Selected Year" ,
Format([Date],"YYYY")
)

Mon Type = Switch( True(),
eomonth([Date],0) = eomonth(Today(),-1),"Selected Month" ,
Format([Date],"mmmm")
)