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Hello,
I am getting so many syntax errors that I am hoping someone can guide me as to what should go where. It outputs a 0 followed by errors, at present.
CustomColumn = List.Generate(
() => [
i=0,
budget_index=0,
LastYearMax=List.Max(List.Select(RunningTotalList, each _ < #"BudgetTbl"{0}[Budget])),
result = 0,
current_running_total = RunningTotalList{[i]},
initial_condition = [current_running_total] < #"BudgetTbl"{0}[Budget],
budget_condition = [current_running_total] < ([LastYearMax] + #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Budget]),
last_year_running_total = RunningTotalList{[i]-1},
last_year_condition = [last_year_running_total] < ([LastYearMax] + #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Budget])
],
each [i] < List.Count(RunningTotalList),
each [
i = [i] + 1,
LastYearMax = List.Max(List.Select(RunningTotalList, each _ < #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index]}[Budget])),
budget_index = Table.PositionOf(Table.Min(#"BudgetTbl"[Budget], each _ >= [current_running_total]) - 1),
current_running_total = RunningTotalList{[i]},
initial_condition = [current_running_total] < #"BudgetTbl"{0}[Budget],
budget_condition = [current_running_total] < ([LastYearMax] + #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Budget]),
last_year_running_total = RunningTotalList{[i]-1},
last_year_condition = [last_year_running_total] < ([LastYearMax] + #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Budget]),
result =
if [initial_condition] then [result] = #"BudgetTbl"{0}[Year]
else if [budget_condition] then [result = #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Year]]
else if [last_year_condition] then [result = #"BudgetTbl"{[budget_index] + 1}[Year], budget_index = [budget_index] + 1, LastYearMax = RunningTotalList{[i] - 1}]
else 0
],
each [result]
)
Any help appreciated.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Simply the formulas and take advantage of being able to refer to previous value "[i]" and next value "i".
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("VczBCcAwDEPRXXzOwZaTtJ0lZP81Kgcq6PHBl9YyOLo1i3Db7XAUU5zFIV5/3iRcfIr4yBNScUZxiiBT20yyF/cL", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Year = _t, Budget = _t]),
RunningTotalList = {10, 25, 75, 107, 167, 187, 192, 272, 287, 297, 346, 389, 410, 500, 554, 640, 693, 716, 720, 776},
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Year", Int64.Type}, {"Budget", Int64.Type}}),
CustomColumn = List.Generate( () =>
[
i = 0,
j = 0,
current_budget = #"Changed Type"[Budget]{j}
],
each [i] < List.Count(RunningTotalList),
each [
i = [i] + 1,
j = if RunningTotalList{i} <= [current_budget] then [j] else [j] + 1,
current_budget = if [j] <> j then RunningTotalList{[i]}*Byte.From(j <> 0) + #"Changed Type"[Budget]{[j]} else [current_budget]
],
each #"Changed Type"[Year]{[j]}
)
in
CustomColumn
Thank you!
Simply the formulas and take advantage of being able to refer to previous value "[i]" and next value "i".
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("VczBCcAwDEPRXXzOwZaTtJ0lZP81Kgcq6PHBl9YyOLo1i3Db7XAUU5zFIV5/3iRcfIr4yBNScUZxiiBT20yyF/cL", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Year = _t, Budget = _t]),
RunningTotalList = {10, 25, 75, 107, 167, 187, 192, 272, 287, 297, 346, 389, 410, 500, 554, 640, 693, 716, 720, 776},
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Year", Int64.Type}, {"Budget", Int64.Type}}),
CustomColumn = List.Generate( () =>
[
i = 0,
j = 0,
current_budget = #"Changed Type"[Budget]{j}
],
each [i] < List.Count(RunningTotalList),
each [
i = [i] + 1,
j = if RunningTotalList{i} <= [current_budget] then [j] else [j] + 1,
current_budget = if [j] <> j then RunningTotalList{[i]}*Byte.From(j <> 0) + #"Changed Type"[Budget]{[j]} else [current_budget]
],
each #"Changed Type"[Year]{[j]}
)
in
CustomColumn
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