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How to keep rows with the most recent date

Hello,   I have an excel table I'm bringing into Power BI.  I'm trying to figure out how to keep only the rows with the most recent date (Oil Change Date).   Here is an example of the table: ...
  • v-juanli-msft's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    In edit queries, 

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcssvSlHSUTLVt9Q3MjA0UIrViVZy8g0HClnqG4KEjMFCIanFOYlAQUMDfSOwsDlY2DkjtawSrN0UKGhgARaEGmmuD1JsYGiIotLQECJsYIlirjFUMcQEr9TUApBafWOQmCWyqUD9xjBjYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Group = _t, #"Oil Change Date" = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Group", type text}, {"Oil Change Date", type date}}),
        #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Group"}, {"AllRows", each _, type table [Group=text, Oil Change Date=date]}),
        RankFunction = (tabletorank as table) as table =>
         let
          SortRows = Table.Sort(tabletorank,{{"Oil Change Date", Order.Descending}}),
          AddIndex = Table.AddIndexColumn(SortRows, "Rank", 1, 1)
         in
          AddIndex,
        AddedRank = Table.TransformColumns(#"Grouped Rows", {"AllRows", each RankFunction(_)}),
        #"Expanded AllRows" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(AddedRank, "AllRows", {"Oil Change Date", "Rank"}, {"AllRows.Oil Change Date", "AllRows.Rank"}),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded AllRows", each ([AllRows.Rank] = 1))
    in
        #"Filtered Rows"

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    Maggie
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