Custome Colum cannot convert a value of type List to type Text.

[dilipprasad]

Hi,

I am new to Power BI and I am trying to add a custom column and the details are as below. I am getting an error as below, kindly help me here.

Expression.Error: We cannot convert a value of type List to type Text.
Details:
Value=[List]
Type=[Type]

Custom_ExpectedFulfilmentTime
= Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", each if(#"Actionable Demands"[Service Line Input] = null)
then #"Actionable Demands"[#"Allocation ETA/DOJ"]

else if(Text.Contains(#"Actionable Demands"[Service Line Input] , "internal", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
then Date.ToText(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),"MM/dd/yyyy")

else if(Text.Contains(#"Actionable Demands"[Service Line Input] , "extension", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
then Date.ToText(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),"MM/dd/yyyy")
else "TBD")

[dilipprasad]

Thank you i have removed #"Actionable Demands" as you said

[bcdobbs · Accepted solution]

Hi,

A few things:

• Your if statements are referring to #"Actionable Demands". That is a precious step which is a list of values. If needs a column which looks like [ColumnName].
  
• the syntax for if doesn't use brackets in power query. It should just be:

if condition then output else output