Using Full Page Apps in Dynamics 365 Finance

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Have you ever wanted to put a website or a model-driven Power App in one of your existing Dynamics 365 Finance workspaces or forms?  You might already know you can create a new workspace with a website, but did you know you can add the website to an existing workspace? Here is an example of the Vendor invoice entry workspace with the Invoice Capture Power App embedded. Prior to using this feature, you need to turn on "Saved views support for workspaces" in feature management. Once this feature is enabled you can follow the following steps to add the Invoice Capture app or any model-driven Power App or website to an existing workspace. Open the vendor invoice entry workspace From Options - choose Personalize this page From personalize menu - select the 3 dots - and then Add an app Once that is selected (the screen goes gray) - click on the section header where you want to add the app (in my example I put it in Links) On the Add an app menu - choose Website Give it a name (my e

Showing the last 12 months based on a date slicer

When working with financial and sales data, clients often ask for charts showing the last 12 months of data.  This is actually very simple using relative date filtering.




In addition, they might ask to compare to the same month last year.  With a simple DAX calculation (SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR) it is possible to add this measure.

Here is the formula:

Same Month Last Year = CALCULATE(Sum(Sales[SalesAmount]),SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('Date'[Datekey]))









For many users this is all they need.  The chart will update each month and they will always be able to see the last 12 months.  










However, this chart will not work with date slicers.  If the client adds a date slicer to the page and selects just one month, the chart will be limited to one month.


The reason the chart is limited to one month is because the date dimension relates to the sales fact table and it filters the data for the selected month.

However, this is not what the users want.  They would prefer to see rolling 12 months based on the selected month like below.




Configuring the data model for user selected rolling 12 month reporting

Step 1: Create two tables, Table 1 is Year and Table 2 is Month.  These tables will not relate to any of the other tables in the data model.
           
a.     From the Home Ribbon chose Enter Data

b.     Create a Year table with one column (Year)

c.     Create a Month table with two columns (Month #, Month)  (Month # can be used to sort the month names in the proper order)


Step 2: Create two new measures: Current Month Sales and Same Month Last Year Sales
Current Month Sales1 =
var Ldate = date(max('Year'[Year]),max('Month'[Month #]),1) //Last date
var Fdate = EDATE(Ldate,-11) //First date
var SumSales = Sum(Sales[SalesAmount]) //Calculation
return
 if(min('Date'[Datekey])<fdate,
         blank(),
         if(min('Date'[Datekey])>Ldate,
                   blank(),
                   SumSales))

Same Month Last Year Sales1 =
var Ldate = date(max('Year'[Year]),max('Month'[Month #]),1) //Last date
var Fdate = EDATE(Ldate,-11) //First date
var SumSales = CALCULATE(Sum(Sales[SalesAmount]), Sameperiodlastyear('Date'[Datekey])) //Calculation
return
 if(min('Date'[Datekey])<fdate,
         blank(),
         if(min('Date'[Datekey])>Ldate,
                   blank(),

                   SumSales))

Step 3: Create a chart using the two new measures with an axis for the month from the date dimension.  Add two slicers on the report from the Year and Month tables created in the step 1.

Summary

This approach can be used with an entire report as well.  Simply create additional measures as needed.  In addition if you would prefer six months or three months, then simply update the formula by replacing -11 with -5 or -2.


Comments

  1. Hey Dan! I saw a post of yours on the PUG forums and found this blog very useful. I was able to set this up in my datasets, but having issues adding in additional metrics (i'm fairly new to Power BI and DAX). I'd love to view these in table form and add in things like YTD metrics, similar to your last picture. Any suggestions or tips you could provide?

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    1. Tyler, since you are a member of PUG, you can actually download the PBIX file I used to create that screenshot as it was part of my Visualization session at the World Tour. It is in the World Tour library under the San Francisco chapter. Here is the link https://www.pbiusergroup.com/viewdocument/data-visualization-best-practices-f-2?CommunityKey=bcc3773c-8717-4a25-9bfe-8c2deddf60ea&tab=librarydocuments

      Let me know if you have trouble accessing it.

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    2. Thank you so much Dan! It looks like my original PY YTD measure wasn't calculated correctly. That helped a lot. Thanks again!

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