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sunny18pc
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Tenure Calculatoin

Hope you are doing well.

 

I am having trouble with a calculation:

if [Active Stage] = "Active" then Duration.Days( [today]-[Joining]) else 0)

 

I am trying to find the tenure of employee but it keeps me throwing the error below for every Active records in Active Stage.
Expression.Error: We cannot apply operator - to types Text and Date.
Details:
Operator=-
Left=18-07-2024
Right=26-07-2023

 

today column=DateTime.ToText(DateTime.LocalNow(), "dd-MM-yyyy"))

 

Any help or suggestions to over come this error would be of great help. enclosing the scrrenshot to validate the date format.

 

sunny18pc_0-1721310466735.png

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @sunny18pc 

 

You can use below code for today. It still remains date type. 

 

today column=Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())

 

Best Regards,
Jing

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @sunny18pc 

 

You can use below code for today. It still remains date type. 

 

today column=Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())

 

Best Regards,
Jing

dufoq3
Super User
Super User

Hi @sunny18pc, you have to change type for [today] column to date bofore you apply the formula.

 

 


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