Create the ULTIMATE CALENDAR TABLE for your Power BI Reports // Beginners Guide to Power BI in 2022

In this video we look at how you can create a calendar table with all the dimensions you will need for time intelligence calculations, including fiscal dates, dynamic fields and more.
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[@rowenaenmas-perater3731]

This is very helpful, thanks. I am now using it at work.

[@oladman9058]

Great video. many thanks.

[@travelkare]

Thank you!

[@rhythmkaushik7863]

The best video i came across on the calendar table 👌👌

[@adamlang7361]

Loving these videos. What if I need to display the fiscal year in a xxxx/xx format - struggling to work this out? Thanks.

[@sisirakarunaratne3428]

good one

[@GG-ep1vh]

super helpful and great video! You're a legend!! Just wondering if you are able to do a new video extending this to FYD, last 12 months of Financial month? thanks for your consideration

[@kaspercruz1508]

HI. How do you make a predefined calendar period like having choices.. Today, Yesterday, Last week , YTD.. then it dynamically returns or joins the current date period into your table? thanks.

[@GregoryGue]

Great tutorial
My company fiscal month ends the last Saturday of each months and fiscal year ends the last Saturday of November.
How do I implement a month to date and year to date filter?

[@agapheputrasusilo741]

life saver

[@williamarthur4801]

Hi, I tried the sort column YEAR()&MONTH(), but this failed when I reached October, so had to use FORMAT(D, "YYYYMM"), which worked.

[@Wzxxx]

Exectly

[@williamarthur4801]

@@Wzxxx I have since found that you can add a leading zero using FORMAT ( M, "0#"),
and TestPadstart in power q. Always something to learn.

[@pralhadgujar9113]

Hi, Great tutorial!
Can you please help me with one query
I have monthly sales data for the full month but we only consider sales till 25th or 26th of the month and it varies month on month. How to set this filter in BI dashboard?

[@Sapphire_Frost]

Can you provide or create a new video on how to update this year? ex. I would like the fiscal year to start from july and end in June.

[@idaraokposen7444]

After creating this, how do we use it?

[@vinothkumarj8882]

Not getting date hierarchy for calender DAX / blank query. Can u help on that

[@faizanuzzamankhan4338]

I tried doing it followed all the steps by events are coming in top row only even after closing the column totals, please help as i m stuck and cant move forward

[@terencewhite363]

At 14:49 into the video your Fiscal year format was pulling in an incorrect date, never fixed or provided a solution. Also please SLOW down and let people see your whole screen and what you are doing. I think you should update this video and correct it.

[@jeremymedalla7056]

How can we add a WeekEnding column that starts every Monday and ends on Sunday? e.g. 19 Jun - 28 Jun Thank you.

[@TheLovaraju]

Hi,
In add column option YEAR/MONTH/QUARTER/WEEKDAY date not showing.
Thank You

[@mrlennis]

The sorting of year & monts is not correct due to wholenumbers. january 2017 will chow as 12017 and october as 102017, whitch is quite a diffence.
So, how can this be solved?
If you look inyour video, you can see that if you use multiple years, they will not jan - sep, then next year jan - sept an then oct - dec will show

[@user-hn1hz9vd9o]

Year month is not sorted correctly

[@steponaszonys8385]

The same here

[@ezichibordner1699]

You can fix that by changing the following line
,"Year Month Sort", YEAR([Date]) & MONTH([Date])
to this
,"Year Month Sort", YEAR([Date]) & FORMAT([Date], "MM")
Here is the reason from ChatGPT:
This modification uses the FORMAT function to format the month as a two-digit number ("MM"), ensuring that January is represented as "01", February as "02", and so on, up to December as "12". This change will make the sorting by "Year Month Sort" accurate, as it ensures a consistent string length and proper numerical sorting for months throughout the year.
I hope that helps.

[@mrneveradullmoment]

@@ezichibordner1699 MY HERO. Thank you!!!