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pacofq
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Power Query - Next Work Day

 

Hi evryone,

 

I have a date table structured like this

 

[Date]

2017-01-01

2017-01-02

...

 

I'm trying to generate a calculated column that return the "next work (open) day" relative to my [Date] column

I managed to generate a column that identifies if the date is a WORKDAY or a NOWORKDAY by verifying if its a saturday, a sunday or if the date is a Holiday (by looking in my holiday table (T_FERIES)), but i'm not able to calculate the next open day

 

let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("\\DATES.xlsx"), null, true),
    T_DATES_Table = Source{[Item="T_DATES",Kind="Table"]}[Data],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(T_DATES_Table,{{"Date", type date}}),
    #"MERGE - T_FERIES" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type",{"Date"},T_FERIES,{"JourCal"},"T_FERIES",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"EXPAND - Feries" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"MERGE - T_FERIES", "T_FERIES", {"JourCal"}, {"Ferie"}),
    #"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"EXPAND - Feries", "WORKDAY", each if [Ferie] <> null or Date.DayOfWeek(Date.From([Date])) = 0 or Date.DayOfWeek(Date.From([Date])) = 6 then "NOWORKDAY" else "WORKDAY"),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Conditional Column", "MinWorkDay", each List.Min(Table.SelectRows(#"Added Conditional Column"[Date], [WORKDAY] = "WORKDAY"),type number))
in
    #"Added Custom"

 

Here's what my table looks like right now. I'm trying to fill the 4th column with the "Next Work Day"

 

2018-11-20 15-47-40.png

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated!!

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

 

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

@pacofq

 

Try adding this new custom column

 

 

=let mydate=Date.DayOfWeek(Date.From([Date])) in
if mydate=5 then Date.AddDays([Date],3)
 else 
if List.AnyTrue({mydate=0,mydate=6})=false 
then 
Date.AddDays([Date],1)
 else null

= Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", each let mydate=Date.DayOfWeek(Date.From([Date])) in
if mydate=5 then Date.AddDays([Date],3) else if List.AnyTrue({mydate=0,mydate=6})=false then Date.AddDays([Date],1) else null)

 

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