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Target to date
Hello - I'm new to Power BI and DAX. I've strugged with figuring out the following.
I have a start date for the project and a close date, and I created a column to calculate the total number of days.
I've also got a total target column for those dates. If the total target is 1000, and yesterday was half way through the start and close dates, I'd like the target to be 500. If today's after the close date, I'd like the target to be 1000. For clarify, if today's the close date, and the project is open for 10 days, I'd like the target to be 900.
In the example above, the target shouldn't be 3288 - it should be 1644 since we're half way through the dates that the project is open.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Hi, renlaforest
This error shows that you are using the custom column feature in powerquery.
But the code is DAX, not M code. You need to create it in desktop.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Janey
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Hi, renlaforest
I don't understand your requirements. Your dates are all in 2021, and the examples you gave are all today and yesterday. Is there any connection between them? Can you explain more details?
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Janeyv-janeyg-msft - the table has all of the dates for our projects between 2021 and 2023, and you're seeing the older projects at the top of the list. If I wanted to do this in Excel, there may be a more elegant way to do this, but I'd use a formula like this one to do what I'm trying to do here:
Hi, renlaforest
You can try:
column = IF ( TODAY () > [Start], IF ( TODAY () <= [Close], [Total target] / ( DATEDIFF ( [Start], [Close], DAY ) + 1 ) * ( DATEDIFF ( [Start], TODAY (), DAY ) + 1 ), [Total target] ), 0 )Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Janey
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v-janeyg-msft - the table has dates from 2021 to 2023. The snip that I took is from the top, which only shows the older, closed projects. There are dates in the table that span each week of the year. Hope that helps.
