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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Power Query - custom column - date -2 and another condition

Hi,  I want to create a new column based on  the condition that hortlistcount is 0 and Duedate is less than two days from now or overdue If so, it should say 1 else 0.    So I made this: = Table...
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  • ibarrau's avatar
    ibarrau
    6 years ago

    You have to ask first for null in order to avoid the comparison between null and dates.

    if [DueDate] = null then 0 else
if [DueDate] <= Date.AddDays
(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()), -2) and [ShortListCount] = 0 then 1
else 0

    Be carefull with quotes. If you type "1" the result will be a text 1 and not a number.

     

    Regards,

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ibarrau
Super User
6 years ago

Ok, let's use a Date for now instead Datetime.

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "red", each if [DueDate] <= Date.AddDays
(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()), -2) and [ShortListCount] = 0 then "1"
else 0)

This should work.

 

Regards,

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

ibarrau 

Still the same error, but I get 0 when the duedate is null

 

 

seems to me that id does not like the < sign when using dates?

  • ibarrau's avatar
    ibarrau
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Can you please show us the error text? because I just test it and I'm sure it is not a date problem this time.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      ibarrauah, I managed to get it to work. I messed up the "applied steps" a bit and it broke cause of that.

       

      So now I get both 0 and 1, but it still says that there are errors?

       

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        ibarrau 

        Ok, it shows error when duedate is null. That's logic :) But is it a way to handle that? show 0 if duedate is null