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osinquinvdm
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9 years ago
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How come the value is sometimes not calculated

I have a creation date and a delay. I'm calculating the due date by adding the delay to the creation date   Date due = DATEADD([Date created];[Delay];DAY) in 80% of the cases it works fine but fo...
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  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi osinquinvdm,

     

    Please modify your formula as below, this will give all the due date as expected:

    Date due = DATEADD(TableName[Date created].[Date],[Delay],DAY)

     

    Best regards,
    Yuliana Gu

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eyeball
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9 years ago

Hi osinquinvdm,

 

I believe the reason is that the date that you're trying to calculate doesn't exist in the column Date of Creation.  If you look at all the dates that have been created, they all seem to fall into November but the ones that haven't are all falling beyond Novemeber and I'd be fairly willing to bet that the rest of the data in your column doesn't go past November.

 

Here's the link the the DAX function definition:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634905.aspx

 

There's a line in there that states:

The result table includes only dates that exist in the dates column

 

I'm hoping that someone better than I will be able to provide you with a solution on how to get round it!

Good luck!