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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Change the date if it is before today

Hi all!  This is my first post and I hope you can help me. I have the following problem to solve. I have this date column and my goal is that if the date in the "Fecha" (date) column is less than today, the value is replaced by today. If the date is equal to today or greater than the date is kept. This is in PowerQuery

 

Thanks you all!
Regards
Bruno Bentancor.-

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous

    You can create a custom column with code like this:

    if [Fecha] >= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) then [Fecha]  else Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())

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    Cheers 

     

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
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    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous

    You can create a custom column with code like this:

    if [Fecha] >= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) then [Fecha]  else Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())

    Please mark the question solved when done and consider giving kudos if posts are helpful.

    Contact me privately for support with any larger-scale BI needs, tutoring, etc.

    Cheers 

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Excellent AlB ! Thank you very much for your help 😄
      It worked for me! 

      Regards!
      Bruno Bentancor.-

  • Jimmy801's avatar
    Jimmy801
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    5 years ago

    Hello Anonymous 

     

    if you want to avoid to multiple columns handling, you can transform the existing one

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjTVMzTQMzJQitUBciyQOMYGSBwDQz0DS2SOBZgTCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Fecha = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Fecha", type date, "de-DE"}}),
    TransformFecha = Table.TransformColumns
    (
        #"Changed Type",
        {
            {
                "Fecha",
                each if _ >= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) then _ else Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())
            }
        }
    )
in
    TransformFecha

    Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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    Have fun

    Jimmy