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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Fixed Date, Dynamic Year - Date Filtering Woes

Hello!   It's me again with another date conundrum.   What I want to do is filter a range of data based on its date.  For example, I want to filter out anything from 1st April of the previous yea...
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    6 years ago

    Anonymous - Try ditching your Date.From, I don't see why you need that. Also, you need () on your .LocalNow

     

    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each [Date] >= Date.AddMonths(Date.StartOfYear(DateTime.LocalNow())),-9)

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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

Anonymous - Try ditching your Date.From, I don't see why you need that. Also, you need () on your .LocalNow

 

#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each [Date] >= Date.AddMonths(Date.StartOfYear(DateTime.LocalNow())),-9)

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Thanks, Greg_Deckler - I always struggle with the date/datetime/datetimezone fields!

 

I've tried what you have suggested but now get: -

Expression.Error: 3 arguments were passed to a function which expects 2.
Details:
Pattern=
Arguments=[List]

 

Then I realised there were not enough brackets (or not in the right place) and get: -

 

Expression.Error: We cannot apply operator < to types DateTime and Date.
Details:
Operator=<
Left=01/10/2019 00:00:00
Right=21/08/2019

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Ah I may have cracked it...

     

    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Conditional Column1", each [Date] >= Date.From(Date.AddMonths(Date.StartOfYear(DateTime.LocalNow()),-9)))

     

    Converting datetime to date with the Date.From - then matches the "Date" format in [Date]