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Daniel_Lima_Car
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Get correct file in the folder

Hi folks!

 

I have an API that gives me one file per day with all ticket information of the month, so, on day 1 I have only records for 1 day, and day 30 I have all tickets of the month.

 

I have a dashboard that I need to get the last file of the previous month and the last of the current month.

 

Daniel_Lima_Car_0-1685732796340.png

 

In the example, I need to filter the 02/06 file and the 31/05 file, and next month will be 01/07, 30/06 and 31/05 and so on.

 

If I were in a SQL environment I probably solved this by adding a rank column with PARTITION BY (MONTH, DAY) ORDER BY (MONTH, DAY DESC).

 

How to do this in PowerQuery?

 

Any ideas?

 

Tks a lot!

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Daniel_Lima_Car
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Hi folks!


I've got what I wanted this way:

 

1. Orderd the data from "Date"

2. Created a column with rank (0..N)

3. Created a condicional column that check if the file date is the last of the month OR rank = 0

4. Filtered true columns 

  #"Personalização Adicionada1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Colunas Renomeadas3", "LastDayMonthOrFirstLine", each if [Date created] = Date.EndOfMonth([Date created]) or [Rank] = 0  then  100 else  0)

 

Tks for the helping! 

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Daniel_Lima_Car
New Member

Hi folks!


I've got what I wanted this way:

 

1. Orderd the data from "Date"

2. Created a column with rank (0..N)

3. Created a condicional column that check if the file date is the last of the month OR rank = 0

4. Filtered true columns 

  #"Personalização Adicionada1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Colunas Renomeadas3", "LastDayMonthOrFirstLine", each if [Date created] = Date.EndOfMonth([Date created]) or [Rank] = 0  then  100 else  0)

 

Tks for the helping! 

vanessafvg
Super User
Super User

as an example you do something like this and then the inverse with min for the other, create 2 queries  one for min and one for max and then append them?

 

let

Source = Folder.Files("D:\OneDrive - foldername\Data"),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, let latest = List.Max(Source[Date modified]) in each [Date created] = latest)

in
#"Filtered Rows"





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Tks for aswering!

 

I've tried that but, my issue here is that each month I need to pick the last file, it worked for the first two months, then it fails, because it's not the first and last only... is the first and like 5 last files of old months...

 

Tks!

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