How to Plot Active Transactions by Month

[Jeromec]

I am relatively new to Power BI and I've been searching for ways to solve this particular scenario. 

Essentially I have transactions in a fact table that can span X month. For instance a transaction can start in March and complete in May. I have the start date/end date in my fact table and I am trying to plot by month the number of active transactions. As such, say the transaction started in March and completed May 15, it would be included as an active transaction in my plot for March, April and May. It seems simple enough, can't seem to figure out how to implement that in Power BI.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Jeromec]

Thank You Evelyn - Apologies about the delay, I got sidetracked with another issue as part of this project, now just getting back to the original issue. I will review and let you know once I've implemented it for my particular situation.

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Share data in a format that can be pasted in an MS Excel file.

[v-eqin-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jeromec ,

I have built a data sample for test.

1. Firstly you need a new table with all year-month period between Start Date and End Date

Year Month =
DISTINCT (
    SELECTCOLUMNS (
        CALENDAR ( MIN ( 'Table'[Start Date] ), MAX ( 'Table'[End Date] ) ),
        "YearMonth",
            YEAR ( [Date] ) * 100
                + MONTH ( [Date] ),
        "Year", YEAR ( [Date] ),
        "Month", FORMAT ( [Date], "mmmm" )
    )
)

2. Create a count measure:

Count of each month =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( 'Table' ),
    FILTER (
        'Table',
        YEAR ( [Start Date] ) * 100
            + MONTH ( [Start Date] )
            <= MAX ( 'Dates Table'[YearMonth] )
            && YEAR ( [End Date] ) * 100
                + MONTH ( [End Date] )
                >= MAX ( 'Dates Table'[YearMonth] )
    )
)

3. Create a Stacked column chart, and in order to get the correct sorting, please drag the YearMonth field to the Tooltips pane, below is the final output:

Or if you are still confused about it, please provide me with more details about your table and your problem or share me with your pbix file after removing sensitive data.

Refer to:

How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly - Microsoft Power BI Community

How to provide sample data in the Power BI Forum - Microsoft Power BI Community

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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