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tkirk
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8 years ago
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Custom Column - Formula Not Complete

I'm trying to create a custom column that takes a date and subtracts 7 days from it. This is my formula:   =Date.AddDays([DueDate],-7)   It's not working though. The only thing my window says is ...
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    tkirk
    8 years ago

    Thanks all for your help. It appears that there was an issue with my client. I usually work with my data in an RDP with a ton of RAM to help with performance. When I saved my .pbix and opened it on another device, my formula worked beautifully. As a resolution, I was able to get it work. Still don't know what the issue was with my RDP that caused the problem, but maybe that will help if anyone else sees the issue themselves, just try a new machine.

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Mike_Carlo
Most Valuable Professional
8 years ago

I was able to get the formula to work.

 

Couple of things you should check, 

1. make sure you power BI desktop is upto date.  The M language has been changing over time and newer releases will have all the commands.

2. The column that your pulling in must be in date format, in my example it was column1...  I did check to see if it would work if I used column1 as text.  It failed, so my guess as to why you may be having an issue could be your data types. 

 

Good luck I hope that helps. 

 

Mike Carlo

www.PowerBI.Tips

 

 

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tkirk
New Member
8 years ago

Thanks for the responses--it seems like this should be working. My column is indeed formatted as a Date field, and my client is updated to the latest version (the October 2017 update). 

 

I had a colleague do the formula in his own dataset and it worked beautifully, just like yours. Interestingly, he never saw the "formula is incomplete" message. As he typed, it gave a more detailed account of syntax errors until he completed the formula. Did you get a similar result? I'm going to save my .pbix and try opening on a different device to see if it's specific to my machine.

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    v-huizhn-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Hi tkirk,

    It's weird. I test it and the formula works correctly. And it shows a syntax error(displayed in screenshot1) untill I complete the formula.

    unfinishedfinish

    Best Regards,
    Angelia

    • tkirk's avatar
      tkirk
      New Member
      8 years ago

      Thanks all for your help. It appears that there was an issue with my client. I usually work with my data in an RDP with a ton of RAM to help with performance. When I saved my .pbix and opened it on another device, my formula worked beautifully. As a resolution, I was able to get it work. Still don't know what the issue was with my RDP that caused the problem, but maybe that will help if anyone else sees the issue themselves, just try a new machine.