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Anonymous
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Help with correcting conditional column in Power Query

Hi

 

Can someone help me correct this:

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Charge", if [Freight_Kind] = "ABC" and [Category] = "BBC" or "BBD" then 10.5 else 0)

 

error Im getting is:

Expression.Error: There is an unknown identifier. Did you use the [field] shorthand for a _[field] outside of an 'each' expression?

 

Thanks so much!

 

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Then you should provide a sample...

or...

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Charge", each if [Freight_Kind]="ABC" and ([Category]="BBC"or [Category]="BBD") then 10.5 else 0)

 

And you can play with parenthesis...

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Jakinta
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= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Charge", if [Freight_Kind] = "ABC" and [Category] = "BBC" or [Category]="BBD" then 10.5 else 0)

Anonymous
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Thanks for your quick response but Im still getting the same error?

 

Then you should provide a sample...

or...

 

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Charge", each if [Freight_Kind]="ABC" and ([Category]="BBC"or [Category]="BBD") then 10.5 else 0)

 

And you can play with parenthesis...

Anonymous
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Thats done it, thanks so much!

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