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Create Date Table (Power Query) according to Min Max Date, for Power Query experts
Hello together,
I think I may have quite a challenge
Given is a table with several dates. I am able to create a querry to get MinDate and MaxDate:
dDateRange:
let
Source = TableWithDateColumn
Clear = Table.RemoveColumns(Source,{AllExceptDateColumn}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(Clear, {}, {{"MinDate", each List.Min([Datum]), type date}, {"MaxDate", each List.Max([Datum]), type date}})
in
#"Grouped Rows"Then I have a function to create a date according to MinDate and MaxDate
let CreateDateTable = (optional Culture as nullable text) as table =>
let
StartDate=dDateRange[MinDate]{0},
EndDate=dDateRange[MaxDate]{0},
DayCount = Duration.Days(Duration.From(EndDate - StartDate))+1, //'+1' da Alleebaumproblem
Source = List.Dates(StartDate,DayCount,#duration(1,0,0,0)),
TableFromList = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing()),
ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(TableFromList,{{"Column1", type date}}),
RenamedColumns = Table.RenameColumns(ChangedType,{{"Column1", "Date"}}),
InsertYear = Table.AddColumn(RenamedColumns, "Jahr", each Date.Year([Date])),
//InsertQuarter = Table.AddColumn(tbd, "QuarterOfYear", each Date.QuarterOfYear([Date])),
InsertMonth = Table.AddColumn(InsertYear, "Int_Monat", each Date.Month([Date])),
//InsertDay = Table.AddColumn(InsertMonth, "DayOfMonth", each Date.Day([Date])),
//InsertDayInt = Table.AddColumn(InsertDay, "DateInt", each [Year] * 10000 + [MonthOfYear] * 100 + [DayOfMonth]),
InsertMonthName = Table.AddColumn(InsertMonth, "Monat", each Date.ToText([Date], "MMM", Culture), type text),
//InsertCalendarMonth = Table.AddColumn(InsertMonthName, "MonthInCalendar", each (try(Text.Range([MonthName],0,3)) otherwise [MonthName]) & " " & Number.ToText([Year])),
//InsertCalendarQtr = Table.AddColumn(InsertCalendarMonth, "QuarterInCalendar", each "Q" & Number.ToText([QuarterOfYear]) & " " & Number.ToText([Year])),
//InsertDayWeek = Table.AddColumn(InsertCalendarQtr, "DayInWeek", each Date.DayOfWeek([Date])),
//InsertWeekEnding = Table.AddColumn(InsertDayName, "WeekEnding", each Date.EndOfWeek([Date]), type date),
RenamedDate = Table.RenameColumns(InsertMonthName,{{"Date", "Datum"}})
in
RenamedDate
in
CreateDateTableThe function is none of my own development see here.
As you can see I don't use all columns the function is able to create.
As a last step I have to call the function:
let
Source = fctDate_v2(null),
in
SourceThis is really good stuff. But it means, I have the function and the dDateRange in my Querries.
So to all the Power Query Experts, is there any possibility not to seperately create a dDateRange and maybe even not do display the function permanently? I'm using Excel instead of PowerBI so I want to keep it slim.
2 Replies
- v-yulgu-msftMicrosoft Employee
- FloriankxSolution Sage
Hello,
it took me some time, but it works.
Thanks a lot.