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Pink1623
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6 years ago
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Cross Join Table With End Dates

I am trying to create a table for budgeting that joins the staff table to a date table, with the intention of ending up with 1 row for each day and each staff member like so : 01/07/2019 M.Mouse...
  • slanka's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    There is no direct way of filter the rows when you are joining the tables using CROSSJOIN. Instead, after doing a crossjoin, you can create a calculated column that will give status to each row and you can pull ONLY on the dates when employee have start date and end date by using report level filter IsActive = 1.

  • danextian's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi Pink1623 ,

    Have you tried using Power Query instead? You can create a custom column to generate a list of dates starting from employment start to end and if end is null then use today's date. After creating a column of lists, you can expand it to new rows. Here's a sample code and some screenshots

    let 
    end  = if [End] = null then Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())
    else [End],
    duration = Duration.Days(end - [Start]) + 1
    in
    List.Dates([Start], duration, #duration(1,0,0,0))