DirectQuery hangs with the Today function

[JoHo_BI]

Hi all,

I have a very simple matrix which shows order numbers by client. I've added a custom column in the orders table to query whether the date is today, which is the following: 

_IsToday = IF(DATE(YEAR(Orders[DateCreated]),MONTH(Orders[DateCreated]),DAY(Orders[DateCreated])) = DATE(YEAR(TODAY()), MONTH(TODAY()), DAY(TODAY())), TRUE(),FALSE())

This works perfectly within the desktop software, but timesout and throws a resources available exceeded error while querying it on app.powerbi.com

Both the Power BI software and my browser are set to English (UK) locale.

If anyone can offer any insight, i'd be extremely grateful!

Thanks in advance,

Joe.

EDIT: I've also cleared the cache in the software and my browsers too.

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @JoHo_BI,

I can't reproduce your issue, your formula works well on my side.  Can you ensure you have correctly configation the datasource?

In addition, if you can please share some detail information about your issue, it will be help for troubleshooting.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[JoHo_BI]

Hi @v-shex-msft - Thanks for your reply, 

Please find a link for a small test dataset available.

Test Dataset

In the top right, there is a "IsToday" filter, using the formula from the original post. It however does not load and still throws the error. 

The datasource works perfectly, I can pull in data as you can see on the table on the left. 

[JoHo_BI]

Still very much need help!

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @JoHo_BI,

But it works on my side:

https://msit.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMGYxMjkzNzItMGU5My00OTgyLTkxNjctMmY5NGNjMWI4MDNkIiwidCI6Ijcy...

How many records your table contains? I think the issue may related to it. Can you share some detail content?

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[JoHo_BI]

Hi @v-shex-msft,

The table I am drawing from contains approx. 400k rows before I apply the table filters. After the filters, it goes to 886 rows, but still doesn't pull through the data unfortunately.

I see your report works, however IsToday always returns false. If it were to return at least 1 true record, i'm not sure it would load. 

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @JoHo_BI,

>>The table I am drawing from contains approx. 400k rows before I apply the table filters.

Perhaps you can try to use value function to create a new table with the value of "istoday" column, create the relationship to original table and use the new table as the source of slicer.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng