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Relative Time Filter Not Working

Hi I have the below table that is pulled from a SQL data base which includes a time column. When I try to filter the page by the time column using a relative time filter the table goes blank. Followed the standard practive and converted the value to a time. I have also added a Date table and time table and linked them as per the picture to Date and Time on the query to try to fix. The end goal is to just have a table that only shows the last 2 hours of data. I must be missing something any help would be great.

 

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Vijay_A_Verma
Super User
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Create a custom column named TRANSACTIONDATETIME and put following formula to combine date and time

=[TRANSACTIONDATE]&[TRANSACTIONTIME]

Now apply following statement to filter for within last 2 hours

= Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

 See the working here - Open a blank query - Home - Advanced Editor - Remove everything from there and paste the below code to test 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtc3NNI3MjAyUtJRMjSwMjSyMjRRcPRVitUByxnD5EysTM2sjIwVAjClgFqMrUxMsUkZA7XApGIB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [TRANSACTIONDATE = _t, TRANSACTIONTIME = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"TRANSACTIONDATE", type date}, {"TRANSACTIONTIME", type time}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "TRANSACTIONDATETIME", each [TRANSACTIONDATE]&[TRANSACTIONTIME], type datetime),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

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See the step #"Filtered Rows".

If you are putting in the formula bar, then put following

= Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

If you are putting in Advanced editor, then following

 #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

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Vijay_A_Verma
Super User
Super User

Create a custom column named TRANSACTIONDATETIME and put following formula to combine date and time

=[TRANSACTIONDATE]&[TRANSACTIONTIME]

Now apply following statement to filter for within last 2 hours

= Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

 See the working here - Open a blank query - Home - Advanced Editor - Remove everything from there and paste the below code to test 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtc3NNI3MjAyUtJRMjSwMjSyMjRRcPRVitUByxnD5EysTM2sjIwVAjClgFqMrUxMsUkZA7XApGIB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [TRANSACTIONDATE = _t, TRANSACTIONTIME = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"TRANSACTIONDATE", type date}, {"TRANSACTIONTIME", type time}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "TRANSACTIONDATETIME", each [TRANSACTIONDATE]&[TRANSACTIONTIME], type datetime),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"
Anonymous
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Thanks for the reply. Not sure what you mean by "Now apply following statement to filter for within last 2 hours" can you advise where this goes. The rest I'm fine with

See the step #"Filtered Rows".

If you are putting in the formula bar, then put following

= Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

If you are putting in Advanced editor, then following

 #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each (DateTime.IsInPreviousNHours([TRANSACTIONDATETIME],2)))

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