I am trying to update background color of a column in PowerBi report. For that I am trying to create a column in power BI report and adding a switch statement to display background as
Red if dates greater than 2 weeks
Green if dates less than 2 weeks etc.,
The switch statement is working fine for strings but not with dates. Any suggestion or pointer would help to make dates switch work.
Working Switch for string conditions by creating a new column
columnNameColorNumber = SWITCH(MyData[name],"abc",1,"def",2,3)
New column shows numbers as expected
Failing Switch when trying to create a column in power bi with date conditions
columnNameColorNumber = SWITCH(MyData[reqDate],"(MyData[reqDate]>(Today()-14))",1,2)
New column shows error
Try:
columnNameColorNumber = SWITCH(TRUE(),MyData[reqDate]>Today()-14,1,2)
to add more switch checks it would look like this:
columnNameColorNumber = SWITCH(TRUE(),
MyData[reqDate]>Today()-14,1,
MyData[reqDate]>Today()-30,2,3)
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I am trying to create a column in Power BI to group the rows of that data on.
I want the column to output text based on a comparison of dates.
Example:
projected = if(staticdate1 > dynamicdate, "XX", if(staticdate1 < dynamicdate && staticdate2 > dynamicdate, "YY", .... )
The dynamicdate presumably would be a filter or slicer the user could click a date on, thus changing the output of the column, and the totals per output would also change.
Is this possible? I've tried SELECTEDVALUE() but that didn't work. I tried creating a "what-if" parameter and adding that to a static date, but that didn't change anything when I changed the parameter.
That’s not possible since calculated columns are static and don’t recalculate on filter changes. This works with measures only.
I have a data table matrix in power bi showing Dates in Rows and hours in columns and count of customers against them as values. i wanted to highlight all rows of thursday, friday and saturday, so that weekend figures can be compared.
Need help in this pls...
the table is in the below format
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First you want to create a duplicate (in my case monday - friday (2) that does NOT have a relation to you source table. You want this duplicate table to only show days. This duplicate table needs a relationship with the slicer you are going to use to filter for days
In your source table (monday - friday) you want to create the following measure:
Measure = IF(HASONEVALUE('monday -friday (2)'[Day]);
IF(SELECTEDVALUE('monday -friday (2)'[Day]) = MAX('monday -friday'[Day]); 1; 0);
IF(ISFILTERED('monday -friday (2)'[Day]) && COUNTROWS(FILTER('monday -friday (2)'; 'monday -friday (2)'[Day] = MAX('monday -friday'[Day]))); 1; 0))
Now you want to create conditional formatting. First create your table with days and values (for the example i did not sort the table. You want to sort your table so it looks better):
Then right click on values and select conditional formatting. Select based on rules.
and the measure you just created in your source table.
for the first option you select "is bigger than or equal to" and give it a value 1.
for the second option you select "is smaller than"and give it a value 1000.
Choose the color you want your highlights to be.
If you now select a day in your filter the value for that day will show the background color you selected! In your case you want to select all days you want to have highlighted.
Hope this helps!
I am using SQL server data base. I need to display total no of nights based on checkindate and checkout date. i am new in Power BI.
I tried by quick measure but it is not working.
You can do this in different ways - calculate the duration in the database, add custom column in M or column in DAX.
In SQL Server use select query like this:
select checkindate, checkoutdate, datediff(day, checkindate, checkoutdate) as duration from table
In M (Power Query) - click Edit queries to open Power Query editor and then Add Column -> Custom column:
Duration.Days(Duration.From([checkoutdate]-[checkindate]))
In DAX - right click your table and select New column:
Duration_DAX = DATEDIFF('Table'[checkoutdate]; 'Table'[checkindate]; DAY)
Note, that depending on your settings, you may have to use comma (,) instead of semicolon (;) in the DAX expression above.
I am building a report in Power BI Desktop, created a slicer - YearMonthSort - which has data selection by Year-Month
Plz, see the screenshot below:
My goal is to limit data in this slicer as -
2015-07 to today's date
(whichever it will be when users will look at the data,
in the same format - "YYYY-MM")
In the "Filters" section I can select my starting year as 2015-07,
but having problem setting today's date.
I tried to create the new Measure, but not sure where to place it,
or, may be there is another way to perform this:
IsToday = FORMAT(TODAY(), "mm/yyyy")
I only just started to learn this,
Thank you for help in advance!
You can do the following:
I am assuming that you are using a calendar table that is joined to your fact table on a date field and that your year sort column is calculated with reference to the 'date' field in your calendar table.
Assuming, this is true you can create a calculated column that will flag whether or not the date field is before or after today. This can be achieved by using the following DAX:
IsToday =
SWITCH (
TRUE (),
'Calendar'[Date]
<= NOW (), 1,
0
)
Then, in your visual add a 'Visual Level Filter' using this new column and set it to 1.
I have created two slicers in Power BI for Month and Year. These take the month and year value and in return generate a date.
Eg. Month - May & Year- 2019 generates 01/05/2019 with the help of the a measure formula :
MyFilterDate = DATE(SELECTEDVALUE(ListoY[Year]),SELECTEDVALUE(ListoM[Month],0),"01")
I want to subtract this date with one that is already in a column in the table.
I'm facing an issue when I try to subtract the measure from the existing column by writing DAX.
SUBVALNEW = DATEDIFF([MyFilterDate],Table[Date],DAY)
But when I try to do so, the result is not right. In fact when I try to check the value of [MyFilterDate] in the Data Model, it is not the same value as one calculated in the measure. (It instead looks like it displays the date in Table[Date])
Is there any way to subtract a Dynamically chosen date from a date in a column?
Any help would be appreciated.
I understand what your thinking patern is but power bi works a bit different. Dynamic measures cannot be used with calculated columns. When doing so the value of the measure is not set.
The way to go about this is by creating a Date table:
Date = CALENDAR(MIN(CalendarWeek[Date]);MAX(CalendarWeek[Date]))
Do NOT connect it to the model. From here you can make 2 slicers (based on the Date table). One your set to the month and the other to the year.
Next step is to adjust the MyFilterDate
MyFilterDate = DATE(SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date].[Year]);SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date].[MonthNo]);"01")
Make SUBVALNEW a measure (cannot be a column because it is dynamic!)
SUBVALNEW = DATEDIFF([MyFilterDate];SELECTEDVALUE(CalendarWeek[Date]) ;DAY)
Ass the Measuer to your visual, see end result below)