Can't get YTD DAX formula to work in power bi service

[oll]

Hey,

I'm struggling with a measure that I have made in Power BI desktop, calculating YTD sales.

The measure is as follows:

YTD 2008 = TOTALYTD([TotalSales];DimDate[FullDateAlternateKey];"31.12.2008")

And it works perfectly in power BI DESKTOP. However, when importing to BI service, it "Couldn't retrieve data for this visual". Different measures that I have calculated have no problem loading.

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[v-huizhn-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @oll,

If there are mutiple years data in your DimDate table. The TOTALYTD will calculate the different years' year-to-day sum.
The default year-end-date is December 31. For exemple, I have date from 2013/1/1-2015/12/31, it return the sum of 2013,2014,2015 saperately. You are not supposed to add year in year-end-date parameter, you just need to add the month/day wanted to end. 

Measure1 = TOTALYTD(SUM(Sales[SALE]),DimDate[Date])

It works fine when I publish it to service.

Best Regards,
Angelia

[KHorseman]

Try replacing that last argument with a DATE() formula.