kind regards, Jeroen

This Function works fine as long as each Month has records.
In my sheet, one month has no data.
For that specific Month the YTD returns with a zero.
Any idea how to solve that?

when using data from linked tables in the workbook:
CalYear CalMonth Sum of Actual DATaYTD
2008 180 180
1 10 10
2 10 20
3 10 30
4 10 40
5 10 50
6 10 60
7 20 80
8 20 100
9 20 120
10 20 140
11 20 160
12 20 180
2009 180 180
1 20 20
2 20 40
3 20 60
4 20 80
5 20 100
6 20 120
7 10 130
8 10 140
9 10 150
10 10 160
11 10 170
12 10 180
2010 60 60
1 10 10
2 10 20
3 10 30
4 10 40
5 10 50
6 10 60
Grand Total 420 60

However this raises another problem with I try and present the data by financial year.

Fin Year Sum of Actual DATaYTD
FY 2008 60 60
07 January 10 10
08 February 10 20
09 March 10 30
10 April 10 40
11 May 10 50
12 June 10 60
FY 2009 240 120
01 July 20 80
02 August 20 100
03 September 20 120
04 October 20 140
05 November 20 160
06 December 20 180
07 January 20 20
08 February 20 40
09 March 20 60
10 April 20 80
11 May 20 100
12 June 20 120
FY 2010 120 60
01 July 10 130
02 August 10 140
03 September 10 150
04 October 10 160
05 November 10 170
06 December 10 180
07 January 10 10
08 February 10 20
09 March 10 30
10 April 10 40
11 May 10 50
12 June 10 60
Grand Total 420 60

as you can see the data of actuals is correct however the YTD data now goes very stange:
any idea’s?

I am still having a couple of problems getting my number correct with this. Could you please email me a sample spreadsheet. if possible. thanks

Since i’m from the Netherlands we also use the dd-mm-yyyy.
PowerPivot sees my date as dutch date in the powerpivot window (as does your PowerPivot).

When i put the date at the pivot table the date will be shown in US format. I cannot make it use the dutch format. I’ll try and figure out how we can achieve this.

But the good news is that I have created the measure again with the dutch language settings:
=CALCULATE(sum(‘Tablix1′[nroforders]), DATESYTD(‘Tablix1′[Date],”01-06″),all(‘Tablix1′))
where 01-06 is the first of january in the dutch format. So this appears to work. I understand this is confusing. The dates should be shown in the native language setting.

Conclusion: Time intelligent functions use the regional format, but the pivottable doesn’t show it in your regional setting. I’ll see what i can find out regarding the layout.

Trying to get this working with Australian date format and am having problems.
In the powerpivot windows I have created the date column and it correct shows the value 1/7/09 as 1-Jul-09. However when I try and use the pivot on the spreadsheet it seems to be interpreting as US format of month/day/year and displays as 7/1/2009.

Row Labels Sum of Actuals YTD
7/1/2009 2.01907E-09 0.00
8/1/2009 3.03544E-11 0.00
9/1/2009 -2.6148E-12 0.00
10/1/2009 3.06386E-11 0.00
11/1/2009 6.82121E-11 0.00
12/1/2009 4.66116E-11 0.00
1/1/2010 1.72236E-11 0.00
2/1/2010 0 0.00
3/1/2010 2.27374E-13 0.00
4/1/2010 2.27374E-13 0.00
5/1/2010 2.27374E-13 0.00
6/1/2010 2.27374E-13 0.00
Grand Total 1.52113E-09 2.44995E-11

My YTD formula is :
=CALCULATE(sum(‘Query’[Actuals]),DATESYTD(‘Query’[theDate],”06-01″),all(‘Query’))