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rachaelwalker
Resolver III
Resolver III

Add business days to a date based on a value from another column

I want to add business days to a date based on the value in another column. I successfully added calendar days in power query using Date.AddDays but I need it to add using business days 

 

I have two related tables: Project and Calendar. I am trying to solve for Target Date adding business days only. See sample data and expected results below.

 

[Target Date] = [PO Date] + [SLA] 

 

Project Table

Project IDDate Created*PO DateSLATarget Date
12345/19/20225/20/202255/27/2022
12355/21/20225/23/202255/30/2022
12365/21/20225/25/202276/3/2022
12375/24/20225/31/2022106/14/2022
12386/1/20226/2/202256/8/2022
12396/3/20236/3/202256/10/2022

 

Calendar Table

Date*Business Day
5/20/2022Friday
5/21/2022Saturday
5/22/2022Sunday
5/23/2022Monday
5/24/2022Tuesday
5/25/2022Wednesday
5/26/2022Thursday
5/27/2022Friday
5/28/2022Saturday
5/29/2022Sunday
5/30/2022Monday
5/31/2022Tuesday
6/1/2022Wednesday
6/2/2022Thursday
6/3/2022Friday
6/4/2022Saturday

* relationship

 

I am following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HkBbqxBzF0 but I have not been successful. 

 

 

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @rachaelwalker 

please try

Target Date =
VAR PODate = [PO Date]
VAR N = [SLA] + 1
VAR Dates =
FILTER (
ALL ( 'Calendar'[Date] ),
'Calendar'[Date] >= PODate
&& NOT ( WEEKDAY ( 'Calendar'[Date], 2 ) IN { 6, 7 } )
)
VAR FirstNDates =
TOPN ( N, Dates, 'Calendar'[Date], ASC )
RETURN
MAXX ( FirstDates, 'Calendar'[Date] )

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Thank you! I was able to get it to work using similar way you have outlined!

 

Target Date =
VAR StartDate = 'Project'[PO Date]
VAR NextWorkingDates =
    FILTER (
        ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
        'Calendar'[Date] > StartDate
            && 'Calendar'[DayofBusiness] = TRUE
    )
VAR WorkingDaysPlusSLA =
    TOPN (
        'Project'[SLA],
        NextWorkingDates,
        'Calendar'[Date], ASC
    )
VAR Result =
    MAXX ( WorkingDaysPlusSLA, 'Calendar'[Date] )
RETURN
    Result

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @rachaelwalker 

please try

Target Date =
VAR PODate = [PO Date]
VAR N = [SLA] + 1
VAR Dates =
FILTER (
ALL ( 'Calendar'[Date] ),
'Calendar'[Date] >= PODate
&& NOT ( WEEKDAY ( 'Calendar'[Date], 2 ) IN { 6, 7 } )
)
VAR FirstNDates =
TOPN ( N, Dates, 'Calendar'[Date], ASC )
RETURN
MAXX ( FirstDates, 'Calendar'[Date] )

Thank you! I was able to get it to work using similar way you have outlined!

 

Target Date =
VAR StartDate = 'Project'[PO Date]
VAR NextWorkingDates =
    FILTER (
        ALL ( 'Calendar' ),
        'Calendar'[Date] > StartDate
            && 'Calendar'[DayofBusiness] = TRUE
    )
VAR WorkingDaysPlusSLA =
    TOPN (
        'Project'[SLA],
        NextWorkingDates,
        'Calendar'[Date], ASC
    )
VAR Result =
    MAXX ( WorkingDaysPlusSLA, 'Calendar'[Date] )
RETURN
    Result

@rachaelwalker 

Just be careful if [SLA] = 0 days, TOPN will generate an error

The SLA value should never be 0 but thank you for calling that out for awareness. I will double double check that! Thank you!

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