Custom Column to round number up to 0.5

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I wonder if someone could help me out with a challenge I'm facing. Im calculating pro-rate annual leave and need to round the result up to the nearest 0.5.

My column looks like this

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type2", "Pro-Rata", each ([Allowance]/12)*[Months Elapsed],Int64.Type)

and I was hoping there's something I can do to get e.g. 2.25 to round to 2.5, or 3.17 to round to 3.5 etc.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up going down a route I used in Excel many years ago.

Rounded up 2 x the number and then divided it by 2. Seems to work perfectly. I did expect there to be a CEILING/FLOOR type function but aparently not. No matter, I think the method I've used does the job.

[Padycosmos]

Hope this helps though this may not be the most efficient way:

[Anonymous]

Thank you, that does work. I wanted to go on and use that rounded number in another custom column but I'm not sure that I can to that having added a column in this way. Is there a way to use Custom Column in Transform Data to acheive same? 

[ryan_mayu]

you can try this in PQ

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Number.RoundUp([Column1]/0.5)*0.5)

 

[ryan_mayu]

@Anonymous 

you can try this

Column = CEILING('Table'[Column1],0.5)