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lcasey
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9 years ago
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DATEDIFF, TODAY doesnt work.

Hello,   When using This formula: Offline = DATEDIFF(Max('hardware'[Last Count]),Today(),DAY) I get an error   The start date cannot be greater than the end date.  I should get a 0 when the two d...
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  • Sean's avatar
    Sean
    9 years ago

    TODAY( ) should not be a problem.

    Try this Measure which should work!

    If it works you have days in the [Last Count] column that are later than today!

     

    Offline =
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        TODAY () < MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), -1 * DATEDIFF ( TODAY (), MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), DAY ),
        TODAY () > MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), DATEDIFF ( MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), TODAY (), DAY ),
        0
    )

Sean's avatar
Sean
Community Champion
9 years ago

TODAY( ) should not be a problem.

Try this Measure which should work!

If it works you have days in the [Last Count] column that are later than today!

 

Offline =
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        TODAY () < MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), -1 * DATEDIFF ( TODAY (), MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), DAY ),
        TODAY () > MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), DATEDIFF ( MAX ( 'hardware'[Last Count] ), TODAY (), DAY ),
        0
    )

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lcasey
Post Prodigy
9 years ago

Yes that works as expected.    Wow, a simple datediff doesnt work.

 

It  seems counter productive to write several lines of code just to get the difference between two dates.

 

Thank you very Much!!!  Hopefully Microsoft will hire better Power BI developers so that Huge lines of code are not eedd for everything.

 

Thanks!