Current & Previous Year Sales Based On Selection

Let us consider the following bar chart visual, which visualises the total sales over years.

Now the requirement is, when I click on one of the bars in the above visual, I want to display the selected year sales and the previous year sales in 2 additional card visuals. Let us see how we can achieve this quickly in Power BI.

Firstly, let us create a measure for the selected year’s sales.

In the above measure, I am taking summation of my sales column, within an IF condition. IF condition here checks if a value is selected on YEAR column, then display the total sales value for that year, otherwise display 0.

Let us create a card visual and move this measure to it. I have labelled this card as “Current Year Sales”.

Now, whenever I select a year bar from the bar chart, the card visual shows the selected year’s total sales value.

Now let us move to the Previous Year sales measure calculation.

1st Line is the name of the measure.
2nd to 6th Line – Here we are creating a variable to get the previous year from the selected year. HASONEVALUE checks if a value is selected and returns that value; then subtracts 1 from the returned value. Basically, if 2013 is selected, then 2013 – 1 is returned, i.e. 2012.
7th Line is the declaration for RETURN statement.
8th to 11th Line – On line 9th we check a condition if the selected year is non-zero value or not. If it is ZERO, then total sales returned is 0. The else condition of IF statement returns total sales for the non-zero selected year.
After moving this to a card visual, we get the following:

Now, let us see how this is working, when we select a year bar on the bar-chart. In the below short video, when I select 2013, the Current Year Sales display the 2013 year’s total sales value & Previous Year Sales display the 2012 year’s total sales value.