Beginning and end week date in SAS Visual Analytics - sas

How can I obtain the beginning and end date of today's week in SAS Visual Analytics? Intnx function is not available like in SAS Enterprise Guide.
intnx('WEEK', today(), 0, 'B') /*First day of week*/
intnx('WEEK', today(), 0, 'E') /*Last day of week*/
Thanks for the suggestions.

This may depend on what version of SAS Visual Analytics you're using, but in mine (8.5.2), this is not directly possible, but you can get at this using old methods.
Using New Data Item -> New Calculated Item, you can start with Now() under Date and Time, then embed that within DatePart, to get date (equivalent of TODAY() ).
Then, using that (and you could just save that aside as a variable, perhaps, if you're going to use it for multiple things), you can determine the DayOfWeek.
Then, use TreatAs under Numeric(Advanced) to convert that to a number, and you can use it for math. You'll end up with 3 of the previous blocks... basically in English, day minus dayofweek and day plus 7 minus dayofweek (or adjust this some depending on what you consider start/end of week).

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Default Silcer Selection in Power BI (latest date)

I have one query can somebody please tell how to show Latest date in a date format
So basically, I want to show the latest date selected by default and if the user wants to select other dates they can change manually but the latest date should be in a date format
Date = IF('Query'[Date] = MAX('Q'[Date]), "Latest Date", FORMAT('Query'[Date], "MM-DD-YYYY"))
Please help to show the latest date in a date format
eg: MM-DD-YYYY
First of all, unless you use a static value like "Latest Date" as you have done in the column above, you will not be able to set the slicer to the latest date. However, you can have your report behave as though the latest date were selected if nothing is selected.
Based on your formula, I am assuming that the table Query holds the static latest date of the model and that the table Q is your calendar table.
Create these measures:
Pivot Date = MAX(Query[Date])
Earliest Selected Date = IF(ISFILTERED(Q[Date]),MIN(Q[Date]),[Pivot Date])
Latest Selected Date = IF(ISFILTERED(Q[Date]),MAX(Q[Date]),[Pivot Date])
Now the hard part is you need to write all your measures to use the date range defined by Earliest and Latest Selected instead of just leaving it up to the slicer to control the dates. This allows you to control what's displayed when nothing is selected.
ExampleMeasure =
var start_date = [Earliest Selected Date]
var end_date = [Latest Selected Date]
return
CALCULATE([Some Measure], removefilters(q[date]), q[date] >= start_date, q[date] <= end_date)
One of the drawbacks of this approach is that you may be depending on your slicer to show the user which dates are selected. To overcome that, add an unobtrusive visual that shows the dates in use. I like to use a Multi Row Card for this and place it in the top right corner of every page. I include these measures: Available From, Available to, Selected From and Selected To. That way viewers know how much data is in the report overall, and they know what's selected at this time. Placing this in the same place on every page in every report is an excellent practice as your viewers will become habituated to consulting this spot for date info.
Finally, I want to point out that you could implement this logic with calculation groups, and that is how I would do it in one of my own reports. Doing so would eliminate the need to modify all the measures you already have, but it would introduce a number of complexities. Calculation Groups have a big learning curve, so you need to be prepared for that journey. The alternative I have suggested will be quicker than getting up to speed on Calculation Groups. However, you should learn how to use them. I highly recommend everything at sqlbi.com on this topic. They have an excellent search tool on the site to find all their content related to Calculation Groups.

How can I display months without no data?

I follow the following blog http://sqljason.com/2018/03/display-last-n-months-selected-month-using-single-date-dimension-in-powe... in order to display Display Last N Months & Selected Month using Single Date Dimension in Power BI.
I've an issue when trying to display month-year when there is no data in the fact table sales.
I did modification: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Amd7BXzYs7AVg3xJ1MKPYI_PIw3z
How to show to show for example October, november and december 2015 as an example?
I downloaded your PBIX file and looked through it.
I am unsure what you exactly want to see, because your report has a few quirks in it.
I'll try to sum them up:
You have a 'select month' drop down menu ánd a slider for selecting the number of months (As 'sales for last x months). This doesn't work. Since you now need to manually select the wanted months in the drop down menu with CTRL+Click (On each month) ánd you need to use the slider.
Next to that, your calculations seem to be wrong. If I only select Dec-16 I get 70. If I select Nov-16 and Dec-16, the sales in Dec-16 suddenly become 70 and Nov-16 takes over. If I select until July-16, July-16 gets 70 and Dec-16 gets 120.. I don't know if this is how you want it but it looks like strange behaviour.
A good tip for measures. If you sum, divide or do any calculation. End with +0. That way you wont see (Blank) but 0. E.g.
Sales (Selected Month) = SUM(Sales[Sales]) + 0
Also, you have made a small date table, which is good. But you don't use this consistently through your report. For selecting months you use the date table and for the graph you use the date in the sales table. It is better to use the date table for dates, since that is it's sole purpose.

power BI relative date filter

Relative Date Functionality in Power BI:
Issue #1:
Hi Team,
Need to know is there any way to implement the below relative date filter functionality in Power BI
Please note the following:
For year the base year should be current year, for now it should be 2021
For month the base month should be current month, for now it should be july and so on.
Issue#2:
Based on the above, we want to implement a functionality based on the below selection, where in if we select week, then we should see the count of a metric only for the weeks which are passed by the above filters and similarly for months, days etc. For eg, if we select year, then we should get the count for the year 2022 only as this is the only year passed by the above filter.
Thanks for any help!
Technically possible? I think so. Feasible? No, not really.
While there is some playroom with bookmarks, custom graphics and clever use of a wide range of measures and calculation groups - it would be an enormous task to get everything running correctly and smoothly.
Perhaps one option is to introduce this filtering functionality via a custom visual that takes your date column as input?

Power BI visualization of data with a Start and End date

THis is an example of what I think i need to do
I would like to ask some modeling advise I cannot solve myself:
I am using Power BI to visualize the time machinery is out of order.
The source is a register of equipment not functioning, with a start date and end date (note that there is no end date if the machine is not fixed yet).
I would like to show the time (hours, percentage, etc) that the machinery is out of order, filter for a specific period /date (e.g. month).
So I have 2 date columns: ‘’Start out of order’’ and ‘’Back in order’’
I do have a date table, which I usually would connect to all the date variables. However, since I am working with a Start and End date. This does not give the result I am looking for.
Any help is very much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Link to my Power BI FILE:
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/83ca3850392967d0d42a5cc71f4352c420200213160932/eb7353
Stijn
I am not sure how you would like to visualise your data, but this is what I managed to do:
create a daysdiff column with
Daysbetween = IF(ISBLANK(TF_Eventos
[End out of order]);DATEDIFF(TF_Eventos[Start out of
order];TF_Eventos[TODAY];HOUR);DATEDIFF(TF_Eventos
[Start out of order];TF_Eventos[End out of order];HOUR))
This creates your column to check difference between Dates.
Then create a separate column with your Date. In this case I copied the Start out of order date, since I thought you might wanted to be able to filter for the start dates. Then simply create a relationship between your newly created Date column and your start out of order date.
Doing so lets you create a visual with the daysbetween (in this case portrayed in hours) and your start dates. Now just simply add a slicer and you can filter on date.
Hope this helps

Calculate rates from previous month based on current month in order to make then visually comparable

Maybe this is an easy one but since I’m very new in DAX and PowerBI I can’t figure it out. My database has daily data ranging from MAY/17 to JUN/17 (and it’ll still going in the future). It has information of DATE, DAY, YRMTH (year-month), QT_APRV (approved customers) and QT_TOTAL (total consumers). Sample below (using Excel just to be quicker):
I wanted to create in PowerBI a bar chart with QT_TOTAL per day and a line chart with approved rate of consumer. For the rate, I used:
APPRV_RT = SUM(database[QT_APRV]/SUM(database[QT_TOTAL])
And then, selecting only a month by time in the chart (just like I want), I have:
Perfect, but now I want to create a new line chart, showing the approved rate in each respective day of the last month. Using my example, when june data are select, the first line chart has to show the daily approved rate of june AND the other the approved rate of may, in order to make it comparable (june1 -> may1; june12 -> may12 and so on). Here’s what I want:
How to make this automatically, in order to make each month comparable with the previous? I thought about some DAX formula involving a sum with filtering current month minus 1, I don’t know how to do it.
Any ideas?
UPDATE (07/08/2017)
I tried what Rasmus Dybkjær suggested me, and I thing I'm in the right path.
APPROVED_RATE_PREVIOUS_MONTH = CALCULATE([APPROVED_RATE_CURRENT_MONTH];PARALLELPERIOD(dCalendario[DataBase];-1;MONTH))
However, it returned the approved rate from the previous month as a whole (67,0% in May), not each day as I wanted:
Any suggestions?
You should be able to use the DAX function called PARALLELPERIOD() for this purpose. The PARALLELPERIOD() function takes a date column and shifts it a number of periods back or forward.
For example, you could use it like this to calculate your approved rate shifted one month back:
ApprovedRateLM =
CALCULATE(
DIVIDE(
SUM(database[QT_APRV]),
SUM(database[QT_TOTAL])
),
PARALLELPERIOD(database[Date],-1,month)
)
Note that it is important that your [Date] column contains a date type. Otherwise the PARALLELPERIOD function will not work.