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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Formulas in a self referencing table

Hi,    I have an issue where my excel formulas are always being overwritten when my query is refreshed. I know why this is happening, the columns are part of a self referencing table so the formula...
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  • v-kkf-msft's avatar
    v-kkf-msft
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Please add the custom column in Power Query Editor.

     

    = Duration.Days( DateTime.LocalNow() - [order date] )

     

    If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
    Best Regards,
    Winniz
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Vijay_A_Verma's avatar
Vijay_A_Verma
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4 years ago

You need to save your result as a seperate table, you should not overwrite the input table with your result table.

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for this. How would I do that? My self ref table is saved as a connection only, does this need to be saved as something different so it loads to a new tab? Then I just hide the tabs for the self ref tables so they can't be seen

    • Vijay_A_Verma's avatar
      Vijay_A_Verma
      Most Valuable Professional
      4 years ago

      If it is connection only, then no need.

      But I am unable to understand the issue now. Probably some more details are needed about this self referencing table/query.