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Bimster
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8 years ago
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Date Difference with blank values

  Hi,   I'm trying to calculate the number of days between two dates and for one of these columns, there may be blanks which I want to ignore (rather than give a large -ve value).   What DAX do ...
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    Bimster
    8 years ago

    Hi ManNVSM,

     

    Thanks for your help. You gave me the idea of using dummy data so I did this and came up with this formula:

     

    Days to close = if('Breach Register'[Breach closed date]=BLANK(),'Breach Register'[Breach closed date],1.0*'Breach Register'[Breach closed date]-'Breach Register'[Date that breach discovered])

     

    This seems to work ok.

     

    Thanks for your help again.

     

     

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Dear Bimster

 

Try this again with ALLEXCEPT.

Ex: New day to close = CALCULATE(IF('Breach Register'[Breach closed date] <> BLANK(),DATEDIFF('Breach Register'[Date that breach discovered],   'Breach Register'[Breach closed date], day)  
, ALLEXCEPT ('Breach Register'[Title]))

 

Regards,

ManNVSM.

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Bimster
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8 years ago

Thanks for the help. I've tried this with the allexcept addition and the same error message is appearing.

 

It seems to be very complicated to do a date difference whilst ignoring blanks.

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    Dear Bimster,

     

    Can you share your pbix (delete the sensitive data or create dummy data) please?

     

    Regards,

    ManNVSM.

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      Bimster
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      8 years ago

      Hi ManNVSM,

       

      Thanks for your help. You gave me the idea of using dummy data so I did this and came up with this formula:

       

      Days to close = if('Breach Register'[Breach closed date]=BLANK(),'Breach Register'[Breach closed date],1.0*'Breach Register'[Breach closed date]-'Breach Register'[Date that breach discovered])

       

      This seems to work ok.

       

      Thanks for your help again.

       

       

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        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        Dear Bimster,

         

        It's nice to help you. So choose a reply that you think it 's a solution, it'll help the other user :)

         

        Regards,

        ManNVSM.