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ddownard
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Find most recent date from multiple columns

I have a worklflow which assigns a phase (Phase A) to multiple people simultaneously.  Each person may approve the workflow on a different date.  I need to calculate the days between the last approval of this phase and the completion date of the following phase.  To do this, I'd like to create a column that displays the most recent approval date from multiple columns.  Can someone tell me how I can display this date?

 

Record IDSupervisor DateEngineer DateWriter DateMost Recent Date
Record 1234/1/214/18/214/7/21Find most recent date
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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@ddownard , Try a new column like

 

Switch( True(),
[Supervisor Date] > [Engineer Date] && [Supervisor Date] > [Writer Date], [Supervisor Date],
[Engineer Date] > [Writer Date] ,[Engineer Date] ,
[Writer Date]
)

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ddownard
Frequent Visitor

The solution from @amitchandak is the solution that produces the desired results.  Hoping someone can tell me how to add three more columns to amitchandak's solution.  Thanks!

v-yetao1-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @ddownard 

Please correct me if I wrongly understood your question.

According to your description, you hope to find the largest date in the three date columns and return this value .I create a measure that may meet your needs .

Measure = MAXX({MAX('Table'[Supervisor Date]),MAX('Table'[Engineer Date]),MAX('Table'[Writer Date])},[Value])

 

The effect is as shown:

Ailsa-msft_0-1619686989018.png

 

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Ailsa Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

ddownard
Frequent Visitor

Thanks @amitchandak.  That worked!  Would you mind telling me what to add for this to work with three additional date columns?

Singaravelu_R
Resolver III
Resolver III

Go to query editor and duplictate the date all date column. and convert duplicate date column in to the data type as whole number.

 

Singaravelu_R_0-1619527441129.png

select all duplicate date column (converted into the whole number) and click add column --> statistics --->Maximum.

 

Singaravelu_R_1-1619527556409.png

Now change date type into Date to get the most recent date.

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@ddownard , Try a new column like

 

Switch( True(),
[Supervisor Date] > [Engineer Date] && [Supervisor Date] > [Writer Date], [Supervisor Date],
[Engineer Date] > [Writer Date] ,[Engineer Date] ,
[Writer Date]
)

@amitchandak , can you tell me how to change your code to include three additional columns?

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