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8 years ago
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Adding only workdays to a specific date

Hello   I have a data column i have a number of days column these days can wary from 1-50 days   What i need help figuring out, is how do i subract those days in "workdays" from that date and t...
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  • sdjensen's avatar
    sdjensen
    8 years ago

    Okay - to assist others with similar challenges I will just make a short description of the solution I created.

     

    First make sure that there is a relationship between the table and the calendar table.

     

    Then in the calendar table create a few columns to create an index for workingdays

    IsWorkday = SWITCH( WEEKDAY('Calendar'[Date]); 1; 0; 7; 0;1 )

WorkingDayIndex = 
RANKX(
    FILTER(
        'Calendar';
        'Calendar'[IsWorkDay] = 1
    );
    'Calendar'[Date];
    ;ASC
)

     

    Then in the table that should hold the result I created this calculation that make a simple lookup in the calendar table using the index column created above.

    NewDate = 
VAR DateIdx = CALCULATE( MAX( 'Calendar'[WorkingDayIndex] ); 'Table1'[Date] = RELATED('Calendar'[Date] ) )
VAR NewDateIdx = DateIdx + Table1[Transport days]

RETURN
CALCULATE(
    MAX('Calendar'[Date]);
    FILTER(
        ALL('Calendar');
        'Calendar'[WorkingDayIndex] = NewDateIdx 
            && 'Calendar'[IsWorkday] = 1
    )
)
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sdjensen
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8 years ago

Anonymous - you are welcome, but I didn't make any changes? So how do you all of a sudden get the right dates?

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

I was working on a demo for you to check out, then i realised that i had set the relationship from calender to the table with the wrong date. So that made the calculation all wrong. When i linked it to the right on it worked like a charm!

Abit embarrassing but it happens

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    sdjensen
    Icon for Solution Sage rankSolution Sage
    8 years ago

    Okay - to assist others with similar challenges I will just make a short description of the solution I created.

     

    First make sure that there is a relationship between the table and the calendar table.

     

    Then in the calendar table create a few columns to create an index for workingdays

    IsWorkday = SWITCH( WEEKDAY('Calendar'[Date]); 1; 0; 7; 0;1 )

WorkingDayIndex = 
RANKX(
    FILTER(
        'Calendar';
        'Calendar'[IsWorkDay] = 1
    );
    'Calendar'[Date];
    ;ASC
)

     

    Then in the table that should hold the result I created this calculation that make a simple lookup in the calendar table using the index column created above.

    NewDate = 
VAR DateIdx = CALCULATE( MAX( 'Calendar'[WorkingDayIndex] ); 'Table1'[Date] = RELATED('Calendar'[Date] ) )
VAR NewDateIdx = DateIdx + Table1[Transport days]

RETURN
CALCULATE(
    MAX('Calendar'[Date]);
    FILTER(
        ALL('Calendar');
        'Calendar'[WorkingDayIndex] = NewDateIdx 
            && 'Calendar'[IsWorkday] = 1
    )
)
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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    sdjensen 

     

    3 years later and it's still relevant.

     

    I am trying to do the same thing the original poster was doing, except I just want to add 3 days to a date and exclude weekends.

     

    I created the IsWorkday Column.

     

    I created the WorkingDayIndex however, I do not understand the RANKX need.

     

     When creating a measure for this, I am not able to add this Date field.

    NewDate = 
VAR DateIdx = CALCULATE( MAX( 'Calendar'[WorkingDayIndex] ); 'Table1'[Date] = RELATED('Calendar'[Date] ) )
VAR NewDateIdx = DateIdx + Table1[Transport days]

      Any help would be greatly appreciated.