How to calculate a YTD based on the Month short - ssas

I have hierarchy: Month,Monthshort and Year-Quarter-Month under TimeDim Dimension,a scope is available like below to calculate YearToDate(YTD)
Scope([TimeDim].[Year - Quarter - Month].[Month].members, [TimeDim].[Month].Members);
YTD:
([TimeDim].[YTD]=
Sum(
CrossJoin(
{[Time Calculation].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate([TimeDim].[Year - Quarter - Month].[Year],
[Timedim].[Year - Quarter - Month].CurrentMember
)
)
)
);
Month will be in format YYYY-MM fullname(eg: 2017-10 October) and Month short will be MMM(Oct). If I calculate YTD on the measure based on month it works fine,
How to calculate YTD based on Month Short? Do I require to create new scope to calulate YTD based on Month short? I am new to SSAS. Please help

Yes, this requires new SCOPE.
Because current scope contains Year "anchor" here: [TimeDim].[Year - Quarter - Month].[Year].
Answer will be updated once all additional questions answered

I created below scope for YTD with month short. Thus solved the problem.
Scope([Time Year Month].[Year].members,[Time Year Month].[Year - Month].[Month Short].members);
-- accumulated YTD CALCULATIONS
([Time Calculation].[YTD]=
SUM(
CrossJoin(
{[Time Calculation].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate([Time Year Month].[Year - Month].[Year]
)
)
)
);
End Scope;

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MDX to calculate difference between sales amount between 2 dates

I have a Cube with a Date dimension hierarchy (Calendar,Year,Month,Week,Day) and Measure as SalesData, would like to add a calculated measure which would give me the SalesData for the selected date and the last date of the Previous Month.
Calendar Hierarchy is as follows
Date - Dimension
Calendar - Hierarchy
Year - [Date].[Calendar].[Year]
Quarter - [Date].[Calendar].[Quarter]
Month - [Date].[Calendar].[Month]
Week - [Date].[Calendar].[Week]
Day - [Date].[Calendar].[Day]
Measures
[Sales]
New Calculated Member need to be created - say [SalesMTD]
Requirement is when a user select any date say 3 March 2016, the calculated member should give Sales as follows
[SalesMTD] = [Sales] on 3 March 2016 - [Sales] on 29 Feb 2016
Can someone please help me write an MDX query for the Calculated Measure ?
Your help much appreciated.
Please try the below code.
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Sales Last Month]
AS ([Date].[Months].CURRENTMEMBER.PREVMEMBER, [Measures].[sales])
, VISIBLE = 1 ;
Then write another calculation using the above calculations
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Sales Difference]
AS ([Measures].[Revenue]-[Measures].[Sales Last Month])
, VISIBLE = 1 ;
with member measures.SalesDataLastDaylasMonth
as
[Date].[Calendar].currentmember.firstsibling.lag(1)
//or [Date].[Calendar].currentmember.firstsibling.prevmember
select {measures.SalesData, measures.SalesDataLastDaylasMonth} on 0,
[Date].[Calendar].[Day].members on 1
from [Some Cube]
Here currentmember.firstsibling.prevmember fetches the member prior to the first day in the list of days in the current month.
Also, you can obviously create this member in a cube instead of having it query scoped like this. The syntax would be similar to the above answer.
Based upon your edit
There are multiple ways of getting to it. Below are some:
with member Measures.[SalesMTD]
as
Measures.[Sales]
-
(Measures.[Sales],Ancestor([Date].[Calendar].currentmember, [Date].[Calendar].[Month]).firstchild.firstchild)
//(Measures.[Sales],[Date].[Calendar].currentmember.parent.parent.firstchild.firstchild.lag(1))
//(Measures.[Sales],[Date].[Calendar].currentmember.parent.parent.firstchild.firstchild.prevmember)
select Measures.[SalesMTD] on 0,
[Date].[Calendar].[Day].members on 1
from [Some Cube]
The first approach is the neatest.

SSAS DAX time intelligence previous year and calculation gives wrong value

We want to show current periods sales versus previous period sales.
To show the previous period we make use of a date dimenion table and the following calculation:
CALCULATE(SalesValueGross; DATEADD(Date[Date]; -1; YEAR))
Unfortunately somehow it shows minor (decimal) differences when comparing years.
The difference get's bigger when we slice to months.
Another issue we have is that this calculation does not seem to work when comparing (for example) week 1 - 2015 with week 1 - 2014.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
When I want to get prior calendar year sales, I use the a formula such as the following:
Cal Prior Yr Sales:=if(HASONEVALUE('Sale Date'[Calendar Year]),
Calculate([Total Sales],
PREVIOUSYEAR('Sale Date'[Date])),BLANK())
The HASONEVALUE just ensures that there is only one year selected so it will know the correct previous year to retrieve.
You can make a series of calculations that will let you use one calc that determines what level of the date hierarchy you are in (assuming you have the fields available in your date table). Here is something I've used in the past, with a fiscal calendar that was different from the normal calendar.
First, the base calculations:
Sales Same Week Prior Year:=
CALCULATE([Total Sales],Filter(All('Sale Date'),
'Sale Date'[Week Key] = max('Sale Date'[Same Week Last Year])))
Sales Same Month Prior Year:=CALCULATE([Total Sales], Filter(All('Sale Date'),
'Sale Date'[Month Seq] = max('Sale Date'[Month Seq])-12))
Sales Same Quarter Prior Year:=CALCULATE([Total Sales], Filter(All('Sale Date'),
'Sale Date'[Quarter Seq] = max('Sale Date'[Quarter Seq])-4))
Sales Prior Year:=CALCULATE([Total Sales], Filter(All('Sale Date'),
'Sale Date'[Fiscal Year] = max('Sale Date'[Fiscal Year])-1))
You can hide all of those calculations and then create one last calculation and leave it visible:
Sales Same Period Last Year:=
if(HASONEVALUE('Sale Date'[Week Key]), [Sales Same Week Prior Year],
if(HASONEVALUE('Sale Date'[Month Key]),[Sales Same Month Prior Year],
if(HASONEVALUE('Sale Date'[Quarter Key]),[Sales Same Quarter Prior Year],
if(HASONEVALUE('Sale Date'[Fiscal Year]), [Sales Prior Year], BLANK()))))
You may need to add a couple of calculated fields to your date table to make it work. I have fields for: [Same Week Last Year], [Month Seq], [Quarter Seq]. Same week last year is an integer field that is yyyyww. Month Seq and Quarter Seq are just autoincrementing integers in chronological order that do not repeat.
My formula for same week last year is
=if('Sale Date'[Week Nbr] = 53, (('Sale Date'[Fiscal Year]-1) * 100) + ([Week Nbr]-1),
(('Sale Date'[Fiscal Year]-1) * 100) + ([Week Nbr]))
I did the sequence numbers in my SQL view, which is the source for the date date. As an example, if my date table starts at 1/1/2010, the month seq for Jan 2010 is 1 and the month seq for Jan 2011 is 13. The quarter seq for Q1 2010 is 1 and the quarter seq for Q1 2012 is 9.
http://www.daxpatterns.com/time-patterns/ is a good read for this topic.

MDX query producing #Error as output

In my SSAS Cube, I have a measure called [Sales Total]. What I want to do is to create another measure that would give me the lowest sales figure in the last 6 months. I want this to be a moving minimum, calculated as the min of sales of every time period from the present month to 6 months back.
I wrote my MDX statement but it produces an error and I have hard time trying to figure out why. It is something to do with aggregating Date dimension members into a filter aggregate.
When i choose a single month member from the Date hierarchy, it returns the correct value. When I select multiple members from the hierarchy, as seen below, it errors out.
Any kind of help is appreciated.
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months] as '(MIN([Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].currentmember.lag(6):[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].currentmember,[Measures].[Sales Total]))'
MEMBER [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[FilterAggregate] as
'AGGREGATE({
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201310],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201311],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201312],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201401],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201402],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201403],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201404],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201405],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201406],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20144].&[201407]
})'
SELECT {
[Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months]} ON AXIS(0)
FROM [My Cube]
WHERE ([Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[FilterAggregate])
As explained in this blog by one of the SSAS developers already many years ago, multi select does not work with CurrentMember. You should use
MEMBER [Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months] as
MIN(Tail(EXISTING [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].Members).Item(0).Item(0).lag(6)
:
Tail(EXISTING [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].Members).Item(0).Item(0),
[Measures].[Sales Total])
instead.
EXISTING gets the set of all selected members. This is needed as there is no single CurrentMember. Then Tail gets the set consisting of the last of these members, Item(0).Item(0) converts that single element set to a member.

PPS 2010 YTD vs. calculated measure aggregation fails (with pics)

I have 2 measures:
Sales Value
Sales Value LY (calculated measure)
and a time filter with single month member and YTD formula.
If i make simple PerformancePoint report like so:
It shows up correctly like this when single month is selected from the time filter:
But when i try the YTD formula from the time filter:
the calculated measure is lost from the report.
Any ideas?
I would try to change the ParallelPeriod(Month, 12) to ParallelPeriod(Year, 1) in your measure definition:
scope ({Measures.[Sales Value LY]});
this = (PARALLELPERIOD(
[Time].[Year - Month - Date].[Year],
1,
[Time].[Year - Month - Date].CURRENTMEMBER
),
[Measures].[SALES AMOUNT]);
end scope;
ParallelPeriod only works properly if the current period is below or at the level stated as the first argument.
EDIT
Maybe changing the expression like proposed at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/archive/2007/01/13/multiselect-friendly-mdx-for-calculations-looking-at-current-coordinate.aspx would help:
scope ({Measures.[Sales Value LY]});
this = Sum(EXISTING [Time].[Year - Month - Date].[Day].Members,
(PARALLELPERIOD(
[Time].[Year - Month - Date].[Year],
1,
[Time].[Year - Month - Date].CURRENTMEMBER
),
[Measures].[SALES AMOUNT]
)
);
end scope;
I was guessing the name of your day level, maybe you have to adapt that.
Have a workaround thus:
built-in YTD semiadditive function in PPS time intelligence can be written also like this:
year.firstmonth.parent:year.month.parent
Dunno if the YTD function is buggy or whatnot, but this was the quick way to get the parallel YTD values..

Clients growth over time MDX

I want to calculate the clients growth over the time.
So every day i have the total clients per state and per product subscription, and i can calculate the total for every day.
If i want to calculate the growth every day i don't have problems because i use a calculated member with
[Date].CurrentMember-[Date].PrevMember
This works pretty fine, but now i want to calculate the growth on month. So i have to sum all day growths of the month to calculate the month growth, right?
But my problem is that i'm too newbie to MDX and i can't find a way to produce that result (I want to know how many clients i have more or less over the year).
My intuition says that i need to sum all day's growth in the agregate date.
Could you help me?
If your date hierarchy has a month level above the date level (eg. Year-Month-Day), your cube will already have pre-processed this value. I would use ANCESTOR and LAG to get the data for a given day's month:
WITH MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[Current Month] AS
ANCESTOR(
[Date].[YMD].CurrentMember,
[Date].[YMD].[Month Level]
)
MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[Growth this month] AS
(
[Date].[YMD].[Current Month]
-
[Date].[YMD].[Current Month].LAG(1)
)
This will, however, only get the data from a whole-month period.
If what you're after is all the data between a particular day and the same day in the previous month, then PARALLELPERIOD is your go-to function (sidenote: not a goto statement). PARALLELPERIOD(Level, N, Member) will look at the position of Member amongst its siblings, then go to its ancestor at Level, go N members prior to that, and traverse back down to a member in the same relative position as Member.
In other words, it looks up your date in a prior month, year or whatev'.
WITH MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[One Month Ago Today] AS
PARALLELPERIOD(
[Date].[YMD].[Calendar Month],
1,
[Date].[YMD].CurrentMember
)
MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[All data since today last month] AS
(
/* The [Member]:[Member] syntax here is a range */
[Date].[YMD].[One Month Ago Today] : [Date].[YMD].CurrentMember
)
MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[Two Months Ago Today] AS
PARALLELPERIOD(
[Date].[YMD].[Calendar Month],
2,
[Date].[YMD].CurrentMember
)
MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[All data between today last month and today in the previous month] AS
(
[Date].[YMD].[Two Months Ago Today] : [Date].[YMD].[One Month Ago Today]
)
MEMBER [Date].[YMD].[Growth in the last month since the previous month] AS
(
[Date].[YMD].[All data between today last month and today in the previous month]
-
[Date].[YMD].[All data since today last month]
)
Hope this helps.
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