Extracting current balance at previous reference date

Question

Hello everyone,
I have an analyses for extracting current balance (in local currency) for some products at current day (i.e today 19 July 2013). In this interogation, I added a new dimension custom in edit formula like: TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY, -1, "Dim Time"."Reference Date"). Very well, returns me the date from yesterday-18 July 2013. For a dimension measures (current balance lcy) I edited it like: FILTER("Balances"."Total Balance Lcy" USING ((TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY, -1, "Dim Time"."Reference Date")))) and it didn't work.
Overall, into the report with reference date today, I want as result the current balance for yesterday.
Could you help me with my issue.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Advantage ? No !!! Just to get correct result..
{ =ToDate(RelativeDate(CurrentDate();-DayNumberOfMonth(CurrentDate()));"MM/dd/yy") }
returns wrong date because, we need to deduct total days of that month from last day of that month to get a last date of previous month. So we should use
{=ToDate(RelativeDate(LastDayOfMonth(CurrentDate());-DayNumberOfMonth(LastDayOfMonth(CurrentDate())));"MM/dd/yy") }
Year!!!
whats the logic behind this
=If DayName(Year-1)<" Then FormatDate(RelativeDate(Year-1;-7);"yyyyww") Else FormatDate(Year-1;"yyyyww")
If you follow following formulas, it gives correct result
Year1
=RelativeDate(CurrentDate();-DayNumberOfYear(CurrentDate()))
Last Saturday (Year1)
=If DayName(Year1) = "Friday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-6) ElseIf DayName(Year1) = "Thursday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-5) ElseIf DayName(Year1) = "Wednesday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-4) ElseIf DayName(Year1) = "Tuesday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-3) ElseIf DayName(Year1) = "Monday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-2) ElseIf DayName(Year1) = "Sunday" Then RelativeDate(Year1;-2) Else RelativeDate(Year1;0)
Repeat above for last 9 year.
Quarter !!! I am thinkin on this
--Kuldeep
Edited by: Kuldeep Chitrakar on Sep 7, 2009 3:41 PM