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ben-t
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3 years ago
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Help - List.Generate dates with variable frequency in months

Hi, I'm trying to generate a list of jobs to do in the next 2 years I have a working custom column that provides me the list of dates.  But my jobs have varying frequencies of 2-12 months intervals...
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  • HotChilli's avatar
    HotChilli
    3 years ago

    It might be a field access error.

    Try

    let freq = [FREQUENCY] in each Date.AddMonths( _ , freq))

     

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ben-t
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hi GekkeHellie

this is the code i used

let freq = [FREQUENCY] in
List.Generate(
() => [Next job],
each Date.From(_) <= Date.From(Date.AddYears(Date.EndOfYear(DateTime.LocalNow()),1)),
each Date.AddMonths(_, freq))

 

 

GekkeHellie's avatar
GekkeHellie
Regular Visitor
3 years ago

Hi ben-t ,

 

Your answer definitely helped me into the right direction.

In the table there is a start date, end date and frequency and I also wanted to create a new row between the two dates based on de frequency.

 

My table looks like this:

 

But since I have a end date in a column, instead of a formula like yours, I still got a error.

So I also added the below line to the code:

let enddate = [End Date]

let freq = [Frequency] in
let enddate = [End Date] in
List.Generate(
() => [Start Date],
each Date.From(_) <= Date.From(enddate),
each Date.AddDays(_, freq))

 

Thanks for helping me out!