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I would like to display only Max data from this below table in PowerQuery.
tried List.Max or List.Table . But not working. How to extract the max date and display in the same column itself?
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Hi @Anonymous
I'm not sure what you want the result to look like. I don't know what you mean by extract the max date and display in the same column itself ?
Do you want just a single value like this?
Here's the code that generates this from your sample data and you can download this file with the code.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Tcq5DQAgEAPBXogJbB9vLYj+24AE4XA1u1YCg4KQdr4hzR/hUgI/qktz6S7DY9pGmJAuerIP", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Date", each Date.FromText(Text.Middle([Column1],4,4) & " " & Text.Start([Column1],2) & " " & Text.Middle([Column1],2,2), "en-US")),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", let latest = List.Max(#"Removed Columns"[Date]) in each [Date] = latest)
in
#"Filtered Rows"
Regards
Phil
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Hi @Anonymous
I'm not sure what you want the result to look like. I don't know what you mean by extract the max date and display in the same column itself ?
Do you want just a single value like this?
Here's the code that generates this from your sample data and you can download this file with the code.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Tcq5DQAgEAPBXogJbB9vLYj+24AE4XA1u1YCg4KQdr4hzR/hUgI/qktz6S7DY9pGmJAuerIP", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Date", each Date.FromText(Text.Middle([Column1],4,4) & " " & Text.Start([Column1],2) & " " & Text.Middle([Column1],2,2), "en-US")),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", let latest = List.Max(#"Removed Columns"[Date]) in each [Date] = latest)
in
#"Filtered Rows"
Regards
Phil
Proud to be a Super User!
Hi @Anonymous ,
I think you will need to split the column into day, month and year, then combine back together with a date separator like 31/01/2020 and then convert.
Best Regards,
Liang
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@Anonymous , this in text format (also not in YYYYMMDD, which can give max in text format), try to change the datatype to date and then try. Or create a new column from it making it has a date and then try max.
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