Date format

[cdbhealy]

I have a data table that has transactions for a retail business. I am wanting to make a line chart which has each year as a separate line, and then the month/day as the horizontal axis with quantity sold as the vertical axis. Ultimately I would like the line to be a running total as of the date on the horizontal axis the quantity sold year to date.  

The first problem I am having is with getting just the month-day. I was able to separate out the year from the 'SaleDay' but any time I try to just get the month-day separate I keep getting errors. I am using DirectQuery to an sql database so as the database updates the chart will update as well. So some solutions I have found on the forum have not worked because it says it is not supported by directquery.

If anyone has a suggestion for also get a running total (the quick measure way didn't work for me, maybe I did wrong fields) I would be very appreciative. 

[vik0810 · Accepted solution]

Do You have predefined values for years? If so, you can create a measure for given years current total and place them on your chart.

A measure definition could be like that:

2016 = CALCULATE (
    [your measure],
    FILTER (
        ALL ( Table[SaleDay] ),
        MONTH(Table[SaleDay]) <= MAX ( MONTH(Table[SaleDay]) )
            && YEAR ( Table[SaleDay] ) = 2016
    )
)

and your result would look like: