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Parsing issues with calculation

Hi,   Im new to powerbi and coming from tableau. I wanted to convert a calculation with which Im facing multiple parsing issues as i want a date to be returned and if date is not returned then it ...
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  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    Again, please check this one.

     

    Column 2 = 
IF (
    IF (
        Table1[Current Location] = "sold"
            || Table1[Current Location] = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    "NA",
    IF (
        Table1[Est delive dt] < DATE ( 2018, 09, 18 ),
        "Data Unavailable",
        ""
            & CALCULATE (
                MIN ( Table1[Est delive dt] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Current Location] )
            )
    )
)

     

    Also please find the file attached.

     

    Regards,

    Frank

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v-frfei-msft
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7 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

I made one sample for your reference. Here I create the measure as below.

 

Measure =
IF (
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Sold"
            || MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] ) <= TODAY (),
        TODAY (),
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] )
    ),
    "Data Unavailable"
)

 

 

For more details, please check the pbix as attached. If it doesn't meet your requirement, kindly tell me what is your excepted result.

 

Regards,

Frank

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Hi Frank,

     

    Thanks for your reply.

    However this calculation return the following error : 

     

    Also on line no 9, isnt that supposed to be true() instead of false()?

    Just trying to understand the logic.

     

     

    Incase the logic was confusing let me interpret that in words:

     

    When current location = Sold or factory only then 

    do the below : 

     

    if date < today() then show todays date

    else( which means date  is not  < today) show min value of all the dates

    in all other cases(when there is no date at all) show "data is unavailable"

     

    finally if current location is not sold or factory then show

    "NA"

     

     

    Sample Output : 

     

    Current LocationEst delive dtExpected OutputComments
    Factory22/09/201821/09/2018assumed today() is 18/09/2018
    Factory21/09/2018 Expected Output column will be used on Tooltip later
    Manufacturer17/09/2018NAsince current location is not sold or factory
    Manufacturer11/9/2018NAsince current location is not sold or factory
    Sold Data UnavailableIf the date was less than 18/09/2018(today), we would have displayed that date here
    Sold Data Unavailable
    • v-frfei-msft's avatar
      v-frfei-msft
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      7 years ago

      Hi Anonymous,

       

      Again, please check this one.

       

      Column 2 = 
IF (
    IF (
        Table1[Current Location] = "sold"
            || Table1[Current Location] = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    "NA",
    IF (
        Table1[Est delive dt] < DATE ( 2018, 09, 18 ),
        "Data Unavailable",
        ""
            & CALCULATE (
                MIN ( Table1[Est delive dt] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Current Location] )
            )
    )
)

       

      Also please find the file attached.

       

      Regards,

      Frank

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        7 years ago

        Your new calculation by logic should work but i dont know why it is still showing the parsing error.

        I see that the date is converted into string by using ""