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replayyy
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Error calculating difference in days

 Hi all,

 

I am trying to calculate the difference between a due date and the date of today. I looked around a bit and found this formula, which might have been able to help me : Duration.Days(Duration.From(DateTime.LocalNow() - [DueDate]))

 

Now I added this formula in a custom column and it gives an error: 

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Does anybody have an idea of what I am doing wrong? I want to calculate the difference between the duedate and the date of today.

 

Kevin

 

 

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parry2k
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@replayyy as the error suggest, your columns need to be date/time type to apply duration function and seem like one of the column is only date not date/time

 

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parry2k
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@replayyy as the error suggest, your columns need to be date/time type to apply duration function and seem like one of the column is only date not date/time

 

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Thanks alot!

 

Solved is using = Duration.Days(Date.From(Duration.From(DateTime.LocalNow() - [DueDate]))

 

Atleast so it seems..

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