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anongard
Helper I
9 years ago
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DATEDIFF with blank dates

Hello all,   I'm struggling hard with the datediff function right now. My problem is this:   I have two columns of dates, column A is a start date and column B is a finish date. Every column has ...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    anongard,

    What days do you want to return for those blank end dates? If you want to return the days between start date and today when the end date us blank, you can use the following DAX to calculate age of the record.

    Column = IF(ISBLANK(Table[End Date]),DATEDIFF(Table[Start Date],TODAY(),DAY),DATEDIFF(Table[Start Date],Table[End Date],DAY))


    Regards,

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago

anongard,

I am not able to reproduce your issue. In Query Editor, add a custom column as shown in the following screenshot.


Regards,

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anongard
Helper I
9 years ago

I was able to solve this with conditional columns, thankfully. I don't know why it worked for you though, I have literally the exact same thing typed in mine and I still get cyclic errors. Is there something that could be giving it trouble in the data?