Calculate quarters in a year??

We have a publication that is sent out to members once a
quarter. What I
would like to do is tell them (when they register online)
when that
publication will start, so, for example if they sign up in
January, how can
I calculate the beginning of the next quarter, which would be
April???

That worked perfectly, thanks for the suggestion.
"Ian Skinner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:fno1d8$qaq$[email protected]..
> Steve Grosz wrote:
>> We have a publication that is sent out to members
once a quarter. What I
>> would like to do is tell them (when they register
online) when that
>> publication will start, so, for example if they sign
up in January, how
>> can I calculate the beginning of the next quarter,
which would be
>> April???
>
> The first function I would look at is the
dateAdd('q',1,lastQrtDate).
>
> datepart String:
> yyyy: Year
> q: Quarter
> m: Month
> ...
>
>

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Here's what's going on in that FILTER(). FILTER() is an iterator - it steps row-by-row through the table that you pass as the first argument, and returns only those rows that meet the criterion you set in the second argument.
We pass ALL( dim_date ). This strips the current filter context from the pivot table and returns every row of dim_date.
In the second argument to FILTER() we define the logic that will determine which rows to return. This comes in two parts, connected with the logical and operator, &&. I will only explain one in detail as we're using the same pattern in each part.
dim_date[year] is referring to the value of the column [year] based on where you are in the table (remember, FILTER() is stepping row-by-row through), so will return one value from the current row based on FILTER()'s iteration.
It then compares that value to what is returned by MAX( dim_date[year] ) - 1. This expression is not evaluated in the current row context of FILTER(), rather in the filter context of the pivot table (in a pivot table your row and column labels are referred
to as rowfilters and columnfilters - this nomenclature can get confusing). Thus, it returns whatever the current year of the pivot table is and subtracts one. When the value of [year] in dim_date matches the value returned by this expression, that row is part
of the set returned by FILTER().
Once FILTER() has completed its iteration, it returns the filtered table, and that table is used to set the filter context that SUM( <fact table>[amount] ) is evaluated in.

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