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jomikk
Helper I
9 years ago
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Help translating VBA to Power Query

Hi, I want to create a dynamic query in Power BI. But I need to change my VBA in query to Power Query such that I can use it with a parameter   My original MDX query contains this piece of VBA:   ...
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  • jomikk's avatar
    jomikk
    9 years ago

    Figured out what I did wrong!

     

    I used Power Query formula inside StrToMember (which expects VBA formulaes):

     

    StrToMember("[Report Date].[Report Date].&[" + Str(Int(CDbl(Now()) - 38718)) + "]")

    So I changed this to:

     

    [Report Date].[Report Date].&["& Value &"]

    And then my original Value formula worked as I expected.

     

    Value = Text.From(Int64.From(Number.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) - 38718))

    But I don't know if this is the "best" way to do it, but it works

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MattAllington
Community Champion
9 years ago

You want something like this

 

Duration.Days(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow())-#date(2015,1,1))

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jomikk
Helper I
9 years ago

Cheers Matt, can you explain what this is doing? Keep in mind that I want a number, not a date.

 

Here is the cube member for context:

 

StrToMember("[Report Date].[Report Date].&[" + Str(Int(CDbl(Now()) - 38718)) + "]")

So using this VBA code for today it would yield:

 

[Report Date].[Report Date].&[3502]