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Anonymous
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Using dates with IF function

Hello 

 

I am getting error ("Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns")

when using two dates in an IF function. 

 

IF('Outstanding Cases'[CreatedDate]<=TODAY()-1,"Y",0)
 
Does anyone have any idea with regards to this?
 
Many thanks
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Anonymous
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The expression below is not power query. Are you looking for a power query expression?

 

While I do not know what you are using, my guess would be that the message is tellling you that an if statement cannot return both a string "Y" and a number 0. Maybe you can try the expression below:

 

IF('Outstanding Cases'[CreatedDate]<=TODAY()-1,"Y","0")

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Anonymous
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The expression below is not power query. Are you looking for a power query expression?

 

While I do not know what you are using, my guess would be that the message is tellling you that an if statement cannot return both a string "Y" and a number 0. Maybe you can try the expression below:

 

IF('Outstanding Cases'[CreatedDate]<=TODAY()-1,"Y","0")

Anonymous
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Hi 

 

Apologies, I must have accidently posted it in the wrong section. 

 

However, you're solution has worked great, thank you.

 

Kind regards

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