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I have 5 date columns in a table.
I would like to create a new column that shows the max of these 5 date columns.
Some of the rows could have null values for any or all of these dates. I want to perform a "max" ignoring teh null values.
If all 5 columns for a row are null, then maybe I would turn it into 31st December 9999.
Doing a List.Max on null values is causing an error.
How can this be acheived?
List.Max has no issues with nulls. My "Custom" column is finding the Max date from the 4 date columns, some with null.
If you don't have nulls, where null is shown, those are empty, or "", you can filter that out with List.Select first. This does that:
List.Max(
List.Select(
Record.ToList(
Record.SelectFields(_, {"Date1", "Date2", "Date3", "Date4"})
),
each _ <> ""
)
)
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