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I have the following mixed column containing status and date formatted as text. The date is entered when complete i.e. status is complete.
I would like 2 additional columns, 1 to assign a status (In Work, Pending, Complete) and another to extract the date.
Can anyone help? DATEVALUE doesn't seem to play.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Here's one way to do it in the query editor. To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8sxTCM8vylaK1YlWCkjNS8nMSwezDUz1Dcz1jQyMDCFcE31DYwQXWZehgb6hIUjKQCk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"PIA Form" = _t]),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Status", each if Text.Contains([PIA Form], "/") then "Complete" else [PIA Form], type text),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "CompletionDate", each if [Status] = "Complete" then Date.From([PIA Form]) else null, type date)
in
#"Added Custom1"
Pat
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Check the example pbix for detail:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQ30jcyMDJQitWJVvLMUwjPL8oGswNS81Iy89LBbCN9E6AiQ0swx0TfGKHDUN8QxDFUio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column = _t]),
#"Duplicated Column" = Table.DuplicateColumn(Source, "Column", "Column - Copy"),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Duplicated Column",{{"Column - Copy", type date}}),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",{{"Column - Copy", "Date"}}),
#"Replaced Errors" = Table.ReplaceErrorValues(#"Renamed Columns", {{"Date", null}}),
#"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Errors", "Status", each if [Date] = null then [Column] else null)
in
#"Added Conditional Column"
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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Here's one way to do it in the query editor. To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8sxTCM8vylaK1YlWCkjNS8nMSwezDUz1Dcz1jQyMDCFcE31DYwQXWZehgb6hIUjKQCk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"PIA Form" = _t]),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Status", each if Text.Contains([PIA Form], "/") then "Complete" else [PIA Form], type text),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "CompletionDate", each if [Status] = "Complete" then Date.From([PIA Form]) else null, type date)
in
#"Added Custom1"
Pat
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Do you want dates down the whole column? I'm having difficulty envisioning what your final table should look like.
--Nate
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