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harshagraj
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Calculation in Power Query

Hello all, can someone help me to write below calculation in Power Query. Thanks in advance

 

Days to Design Freeze =
VAR a =
    IF (
        CONTAINS ( tep_projects, tep_projects[DF FY], "FY" ),
        IF (
            CONTAINS ( tep_projects, 'tep_projects'[Design Freeze Status], "Completed" ),
            "Done",
            DATEDIFF (
                MIN ( tep_projects[snap_date] ),
                MAX ( tep_projects[Planned Design Freeze] ),
                DAY
            )
        ),
        "Past"
    )
RETURN
    IF (
        CONTAINS ( tep_projects, tep_projects[Design Freeze Status], "Blank" ),
        BLANK (),
        a
    )

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edhans
Community Champion
Community Champion

Someone may jump in, but i'm not going to try to translate DAX to M without knowing what is in the data. M behaves differently, most notably it is case sensitive, than DAX. I'd want a table of some sample data to test against and ensure it returns the expected result, which we'd also need to see.

 

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