Count days between two dates or

bohon79

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Hello Everyone,

New to PowerBi and trying to see if this is possible. Trying to count days between two dates or if no end date then keep counting until the end date is filled in. here are my columns that i am trying to count

table name is Award Data
Start Date
End Date

Sometimes i will have a date in the end date column and sometimes not. I know how to get the count between two dates or but not start date to today date.

any help would be appreciated.
 

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Book1
ABC
1StartEndDays
201/01/202301/05/20234
301/01/2023103
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C2:C3C2=IF(ISBLANK([@End]),TODAY()-[@Start],[@End]-[@Start])
 
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I was looking more or less how to have this in PowerBi or Power query rather than excel. Trying to make this as simple as can be so when i leave the next person just has to get the data and update the spreadsheet and the rest is completed for them
 
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I find spending some time messing around inside an app helps learn how to use it. It took just a couple of minutes to discover that Subtract Days is actually built into the Add Column section under the Date drop down.
Anyway, here's the code in Power BI to produce the table I first posted.
Power Query:
let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQ31DcyMDJW0gEyTSHMWB0UcaXYWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Start = _t, End = _t]),
    ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Start", type date}, {"End", type date}}),
    InsertedDateSubtraction = Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Day", each Duration.Days([End] - [Start]), Int64.Type)
in
    InsertedDateSubtraction
The Source uses the facility to manually create a table. on the fly. It's large icon towards the left side of the Home section in Power BI Query Editor, and the code works in Excel Power Query as well, but in Excel, the Enter Data icon is a tiny one at the far right of the home section.
 
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I was looking more or less how to have this in PowerBi or Power query rather than excel. Trying to make this as simple as can be so when i leave the next person just has to get the data and update the spreadsheet and the rest is completed for them
Are you trying to work out # of Business days? (i.e. exclude weekends) ?

Try creating a custom column with:
Power Query:
=NETWORKDAYS([Start Date],IF([End Date]]= BLANK(),TODAY(),[End Date]))
 
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