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Donny620
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3 years ago
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Difference in date between two columns in a measure?

Hello!   I have an Excel version of this that I am trying to duplicate in PBI.  I have three date columns Date 1a(stock date), Date1b(different stock date), and Date 2(sell date).  I want to use Da...
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    parry2k
    3 years ago

    Donny620 you can add a measure like this:

     

     

    Trimmed Aging = 
VAR __Date1 = COALESCE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Table[Date1] ), Table[Date2] )
VAR __Date2 = SELECTEDVALUE ( Table[Date2] )
VAR __Diff = DATEDIFF ( __Date1, __Date2, DAYS )
RETURN
IF ( __Diff < 5, 5, IF ( __Diff > 540, 540, __Diff ) )

     

     

     

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Donny620
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3 years ago

parry2k Thank you again!  I'm having trouble duplicating the formula (Do I add another SelectedValue function and change 'Days' to 'Day'?)  To make it super simple here are two files one an Excel which gives the 

'answer' using the required logic and a pivot table, and one PBI which looks at the Excel and tries a formula like yours.  

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rRqD-bkrzi7TG2ioG_VpmeUZd_gM35wc/view?usp=drive_link

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O33eBH4uqJns0Fz-Ip7_22XXEfYQ9gMd/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105617650305009849389&rtpof=true&sd=true

 

Thank you!!

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

You could always just use the Power Query through the 'Transform Data' Tab, if you had some thing like this:

The  you could use a custom column to achieve what you want:

if [Date] = null and [Date2] <> null then [Date2] else if [Date] <> null and [Date2] = null then [Date] else if [Date] = null and [Date2] = null then null else List.Max({[Date],[Date2]}) - #duration(0,0,0,(Duration.TotalSeconds([Date]-[Date2]))/2)
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    Anonymous
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    3 years ago

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    Donny620
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    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous thank you for your answer!  Unforuntatly I for some reason can't add columns, only measures (and if I try to go to Transform Data I get "A DirectQuery connection is required").  Due to how the PBI is set up within my org. Is this task impossible if I can't create columns?  Is there a measure that will work? Thanks!