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carogomez
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5 years ago
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DAX in power query

HI!!

 

I`m having problems formulating in power bi query:

I want to add a column with 1 and 0, where 1 indicates the date is before from today and 0 if it is greated than today.

 

But there is an error and I don't understand why:

Can you tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Thanks

 

 

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  • CNENFRNL's avatar
    CNENFRNL
    5 years ago

    carogomez , Power Query is also extremely strick with data type in calculation, if the column [fech] is of type Date, the formula should be what I wrote above; if DateTime, the formula should be this accordingly,

    if [fech]<=DateTime.LocalNow() then 1 else 0

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  • CNENFRNL's avatar
    CNENFRNL
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    5 years ago

    Hi, carogomez , power query is case-sensitive and there's a specific way to obtain today's date. You might want to try this formula

    if [fech]<=DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()) then 1 else 0
    • carogomez's avatar
      carogomez
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      5 years ago

      Thank for your help. Now the formula is ok for power query but now their is an error in the columns:

       

       

  • Fowmy's avatar
    Fowmy
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    5 years ago

    carogomez 

    Check the Data Type of the following column, it has to be Date/Time, if not right-click and change it to Date/Time before adding the new column, also check if any error exists. 

    [fechainicio]

     

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    • carogomez's avatar
      carogomez
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      5 years ago

       

      "Fechainicio": I changed the column type to Date/time and the error persist. 

      What else is happenning, can`t understand.

      Thank you very much for your fast reply.

       

       

       

       

      • CNENFRNL's avatar
        CNENFRNL
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        5 years ago

        carogomez , Power Query is also extremely strick with data type in calculation, if the column [fech] is of type Date, the formula should be what I wrote above; if DateTime, the formula should be this accordingly,

        if [fech]<=DateTime.LocalNow() then 1 else 0
  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
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    5 years ago

    FYI that you can click in the cell next to the word Error to see the error (not on the word).  In this case, you are comparing DateTime with Date which gives error.  You need to convert your column to Date first, or, if you need DateTime, you need to remove DateTime.Date from DateTime.LocalNow() or add DateTime.Date around your column.

     

    Regards,

    Pat