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J_o_n_a_s
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5 years ago
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Something more practical than an IF Statement

Hi everyone,    So i need to come up with a solution for when an employee changes department. The work hours of this employee from a certain date onwards have to be saved under the new department w...
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  • v-yingjl's avatar
    v-yingjl
    5 years ago

    Hi J_o_n_a_s ,

    If different employees change department on different dates, I think it is necessary to compare date for each employee but you can try to optimize the formula, for example, using switch() function, using variables, like this:

     

    Column =
VAR date1 =
    DATE ( 2020, 12, 31 )
VAR date2 =
    DATE ( 2020, 5, 8 )
VAR new = [Employee] & 2
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        [Employee],
        "Jonas", IF ( [Date] > date1, new, [Employee] ),
        "A",
            IF ( [Date] > date2, new & 2, [Employee] )
    )

     

     

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VijayP
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5 years ago

J_o_n_a_s 

Tyring to understand the final objective .Should you create the data in a column only? What do you want to achieve as report , can you please share that as a snapshot?

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J_o_n_a_s
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5 years ago

Yeah preferably in a column.

 

Basically the same result as what I got but in a more practical way for when more employees change department on different dates. I need to do this for past data as well so there will be several department changes.