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Use Created Date Column to form a Predicted Close Date Column

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  • edhans's avatar
    5 years ago

    Yes Anonymous - try this:
    You cannot add fractions of months, so I had to convert your months to average days, assuming each month has 30.4 days in it (365/12).

    It returns this:

    the start range is the average days in the first range of months (3/6/9) and End range is the last set of months (6/9/12). I then took the average of those two, rounded to 0 decimals, and added that number of days to the first value.

    At this point, remove the columns you don't need. Here is the full code:

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjDXNzDTNzIwMlTSUTJW0FUwU/DNzyvJKFaK1YlWMjRGkjUDyloiyxoZIMlaAmUNjeDSsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Lead Created Date:" = _t, #"Timeframe to Buy:" = _t]),
        #"Changed Type with Locale" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source, {{"Lead Created Date:", type date}}, "en-BS"),
        #"Added Start Range" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type with Locale", "Start Range", each Number.From(Text.BeforeDelimiter([#"Timeframe to Buy:"], "-")) * 30.4),
        #"Added End Range" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Start Range", "End Range", each Number.From(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([#"Timeframe to Buy:"], "-"), "Months")) * 30.4),
        #"Inserted Average" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added End Range", "New Date", each Date.AddDays([#"Lead Created Date:"], Number.Round(List.Average({[Start Range], [End Range]}), 0)), type date)
    in
        #"Inserted Average"

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    3) Remove everything you see, then paste the M code I've given you in that box.
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