Power Query Date Comparison

Gwill1983

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Hi all,
Bit of a rookie with power query, but trying to adjust some data as part of a report that I am running.

i want to compare 2 dates and if the date in column b is in a later month than the date in column a then enter the month name of column b, if not enter the month name of column a.

currently I am adding custom columns to extract date names and comparing against each other, but feels a bit of a long winded way of doing it!
Can anybody help me with a formula to achieve this?
 

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I'd use something like:
Power Query:
if [Column B]>[Column A] then Date.MonthName([Column B]) else Date.MonthName([Column A]) 
// or just
Date.MonthName(List.Max({[Column A],[Column B]}))
Both formulas compare the dates not just months so if the dates are from different years they might return wrong answers.

If you don't care about the later date but just the greater month wrap the columns in the comparison part of the formula in Date.Month-functions:
Power Query:
if Date.Month([Column B])>Date.Month([Column A]) then Date.MonthName([Column B]) else Date.MonthName([Column A])
 
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This looks at year and month:-

Power Query:
= Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "Test", each if (Date.Year([Date b]) - Date.Year([Date a])) * 12 + (Date.Month([Date b]) - Date.Month([Date a])) > 0 then Date.MonthName([Date b]) else Date.MonthName([Date a]))
 
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Solution
This looks at year and month:-

Power Query:
= Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "Test", each if (Date.Year([Date b]) - Date.Year([Date a])) * 12 + (Date.Month([Date b]) - Date.Month([Date a])) > 0 then Date.MonthName([Date b]) else Date.MonthName([Date a]))
This worked like a charm!! Thanks alot!
 
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