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Adding Days to current date
So i have a field that shows the number of days till out of inventory and I want to have it add to the current date so I know what the date is the inventory will run out. Then I can compare the date the inventory will run out to the date the on order items will arrive to determine if I have an inventory gap or not. How do I do this. Been reading a ton of message boards and can't find a way to make this work. Please help.
You could add a column. Say your last step name is FinalStep, and your days on hand field is DaysOnHand:
CurrentDate= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),
NewColumn = Table.AddColumn(FinalStep, "OutOfStockDate", each Date.AddDays(CurrentDate, [DaysOnHand]))This will add the amount of days from DaysOnHand to today's date.
--Nate
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You can use TODAY() in DAX columns/measures or Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) in the query editor to get the current date to add to your column. If it's a measure, you need to use the TODAY() approach.
Pat
Hi, Jimb2007
Could you please consdier sharing more details about it or a simple sample file without any sesentive information for further discussion?
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Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.You could add a column. Say your last step name is FinalStep, and your days on hand field is DaysOnHand:
CurrentDate= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),
NewColumn = Table.AddColumn(FinalStep, "OutOfStockDate", each Date.AddDays(CurrentDate, [DaysOnHand]))This will add the amount of days from DaysOnHand to today's date.
--Nate
So I have created to column "Current Date" but when I try your recommended solution to add to that colum the number of days til out I get an error. Seems to be with FinalStep. I do not understand why. Is this just to name the column or to provide a calucalated function? What is the function of FinalStep?
