LY Quarter Sales year and quarter only

[Anonymous]

Hello friends,

I have a table with year and quarter information only. I would like to have LY quarter sales for example, but since I don't have dates the inbuilt functions like SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR are not applicable.

The expected result is:

Year	Quarter	Total Sales	LY Quarter Sales	Var
2017	Q2	862
2017	Q3	797
2017	Q4	825
2018	Q1	839
2018	Q2	895	862	33
2018	Q3	809	797	12
2018	Q4	814	825	-11
2019	Q1	877	839	38

Thank you in advance

[v-xicai · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You can create measures like DAX below.

LY Quarter Sales = CALCULATE(MAX('Table'[Total Sales]),FILTER(ALLSELECTED('Table'),'Table'[Quarter]=MAX('Table'[Quarter])&&'Table'[Year]=MAX('Table'[Year])-1))

Var = IF(ISBLANK([LY Quarter Sales]),BLANK(),MAX('Table'[Total Sales])-[LY Quarter Sales])

Best Regards,

Amy

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[ibarrau]

Hi, you can force a date like the first month and day of the quarter for each year. For example think on Q1 as january, Q2 as april, etc. Create your date column with that thinking to model. Then you can use Time Intelligence with a date table to enable sameperiodlastyear. Another approach is creating a measure that will depend on how you are going to use it.

For example, if you are adding year and quarter in the visualization like the table you have there, you can write this measure:

LY = 
VAR maxi = MAX (Tabla[Year]) -1
RETURN
CALCULATE(
    SUM ( Tabla[Value] )
    ; Tabla[Year] = maxi
)

With this you will probably be able to have your result, but again, it will depend on the visualization (filter and row context)

Regards,

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[sturlaws]

Hi @Anonymous 

have you tried creating a column with the first date of each quater? E.g. Q1-2017 becomes 2017-01-01 and Q3-2017 becomes 2017-07-01. You can use various date-function on such a column.

Cheers,
Sturla

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