Watch the video above to learn how to set up a custom date period slicer in Power BI! In this example, we allow the user to select from MTD, QTD, YTD, Last Month, Last Quarter, Last Year, All Time, and Custom!

The Custom option is extremely cool because it will enable the user to set a custom date range, other than the pre-defined date period selections. See the following gif for an example.

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