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FlowViz
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Dynamic date range in OData query

Hey Guys,

 

I have a query for my dataset that ends in "and ChangedDate ge 2020-02-01Z" I always want it to pull the last 6 months of data from the time of load/refresh. At the minute I'm having to manually go in and change this - I wondered if there was a way I could do this dynamically where it will just always be the last 6 months? 

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Hi @FlowViz 

 

@ponnusamy 's expression has an extra ')' at the end. Remove that and you will get the correct result. There should be only a single ')' there.

 

Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),-6),"yyyy-MM-dd")

21090806.jpg

 

Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing

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FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

Yes this is what I'm seeing:

 

Screenshot 2021-09-05 at 10.48.10.png

Hi @FlowViz 

 

@ponnusamy 's expression has an extra ')' at the end. Remove that and you will get the correct result. There should be only a single ')' there.

 

Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),-6),"yyyy-MM-dd")

21090806.jpg

 

Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing

mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

That expression from @ponnusamy should work.  Does your query look like this?

 

"... ChangedDate ge " & Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),-6),"yyyy-MM-dd")) & "Z"

 

Pat





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FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

Unfortunately that didn't work 😞

ponnusamy
Solution Supplier
Solution Supplier

@FlowViz 

 

Try this 'and ChangedDate ge "Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),-6),"yyyy-MM-dd"))" in advance editor

Amazing thank you!

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