Filter Date Table (SSAS Tabular)

Hi Guys,
I'll try to define my issue as clear as possible.
Am creating a model for SSAS Tabular but I have following problem.
I have a Date Table that I want to filter depending on what the user select from another table with values like:
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, This Month, Last Month, .....
What I have tried:
(1) My Date table contains flags(columns) for each of these values. Filtering on these values is no problem. But then I have a long list of different possible flags.
(2) I created a copy of my date table but with the flags unpivoted (DateId, FlagName, Value (0 or 1))
I was hoping to be able to create somehow a relation between my date table and this table, but no success.
Also this way I would have a field that users can filter on (choose what period they want to see)
But sadly enough (2) did not work and I can not find any other way to find a solution for it.
Any help would be great.
Regards,
Sammy

In your date table, you can create different attribute for
each condition below:
1. Today, 2. Yesterday, 3. This Week, 4. Last Week, 5. This Month, 6. Last Month
So, if we consider above attributes there will be 6 different attributes with "Yes/No" Or "True/ False" Or "1/0" whatever flag.
I would suggest you to calculate these conditions in sql query which will be faster compared to calculated columns in the model.
Unfortunately, tabular model 2012 do not support dynamic set so you cannot build a single attribute with these values @server side.
I had similar question sometime back, check if you find something useful from this thread -
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/302dd796-2677-44df-a76e-b053dcd14117/ssas-tabular-model-dynamic-fiscal-period?forum=sqlanalysisservices
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