Bar Chart show data from current date each month

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I need guidance for what I currently thinking, is it possible to create a Bar Chart that will show data from certain dates or filtered dates in each month? Well, let's say I want to see how much data that will show up on the 1st date of each month. Like the data on 1st Jan, 1st Feb, 1st March. And from there I want to do a comparison from each date on each month.

This is my current bar chart that I already create on the PowerBI, but I'm trying to accomplish the idea that has already been described before. Thank you.

[TheoC · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

If I am understanding your requirement, you should be able to take the "Day" from the Date Hierarchy and add that as a Slicer so that you can select the Day of each Month and compare only the Day that you want (i.e. first, second, third, fourth, etc., etc)...

Hope this helps 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hi @TheoC, thank you for your reply.

This is exactly what I need, I didn't know I could use Day from hierarchy, still need to learn more about PBI. Anyways, if your way is using a filter, how to make it automatically following the latest date of the current month in my data? I'm still searching for how to make the formula for it. 
But totally, your solution makes me easier to go to the next step.

[TheoC]

@Anonymous yeah, Power BI is pretty powerful and is far more simple to use than we often think.  

My sincere apologies, however, I am just trying to get a better understanding of what you are wanting to achieve.  Are you aiming to return the most current day such as "TodaysDay = DAY ( TODAY () )" or are you aiming to return the most recent Date in all of your Date column such as "LastDate = LASTDATE ( 'Table'[Date] )" or possibly the Day of the most recent date such as "Most Recent LastDate = DAY ( LASTDATE ('Table'[Date] ) )"?

If the above is not what you were hoping for, please let me know and I will do my best to help out 🙂

[Anonymous]

@TheoC maybe the "Most Recent LastDate = DAY ( LASTDATE ('Table'[Date] ) )", from that formula will return the date number from my date, right? I guess that could work to automatically filter the chart based on the recent last date from my data and applied it to each month in the chart. 

I'm sorry if my explanation is quite confusing, hard for me to put it in words.

[TheoC]

@Anonymous please do not apologise at all. We all come from amazing and unique backgrounds and are all here on the Microsoft Community to learn and grow in Power BI together 🙂

Let me know how the measures go and we can try more if they aren't the right ones 😀

[Anonymous]

@TheoC, I'm currently stuck on finding a way not to have to use a Date Filter to get the value for the last recent day of each month.

Do I have to create a measure for that or I can do something specific to this can automatically following today's date or the latest date in my data?

[TheoC]

Hi @Anonymous, you can use TODAY() which will always return today's date. That will automatically update to today's date whereas LASTDATE (Table[Date] ) will return the most recent date in your Date column.

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , Create a measure like

=
var _max = maxx(allselected('Date'), 'Date'[Date])
var _min = maxx(allselected('Date'), 'Date'[Date])
return
calculate(sum(Table[Value]), filter('date', 'Date'[Date] >=_min && 'Date'[Date] <=_max && 'Date'[Date] = eomonth(min('Date'[Date]),-1)+1 ))

or

=
var _max = maxx(allselected('Date'), 'Date'[Date])
var _min = maxx(allselected('Date'), 'Date'[Date])
return
calculate(sum(Table[Value]), filter('date', 'Date'[Date] = eomonth(min('Date'[Date]),-1)+1 ))

or

calculate(firstnonblankvalue'Date'[Date], sum(Table[Value]))

[Anonymous]

Hi @amitchandak, thank you for your reply.

I try your 1st formula, but when I put that to the Bar Chart, everything goes blank. Same with the 3rd formula.
I try the 2nd formula, which only shows 1 date data only and I can't change it to other dates by using a filter.