Parsing issues with calculation

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Im new to powerbi and coming from tableau.

I wanted to convert a calculation with which Im facing multiple parsing issues as i want a date to be returned and if date is not returned then it has to be a String called Unavailable. This is being combined with few more calculations. Can someone help me frame this in powerbi

Tableau Calculation below : 

min
(
 if ([Current Location]="Sold" or [Current Location]="Factory")

 then

    IFNULL
    (
    STR(IF [Est Deliv Dt]<=TODAY() THEN TODAY()ELSE [Est Deliv Dt] END),'Data Unavailable'
    )

 ELSE
   'N/A'
 END
)

Sample dataset

Current Location	Est delive dt
Sold	20/09/2018
Factory	18/09/2018
Manufacturer	17/109/2018
Sold	19/09/2018
Factory	16/09/2018
Manufacturer	11/9/2018

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

I made one sample for your reference. Here I create the measure as below.

Measure =
IF (
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Sold"
            || MAX ( Table1[Current Location] ) = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    IF (
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] ) <= TODAY (),
        TODAY (),
        MAX ( Table1[Est delive dt] )
    ),
    "Data Unavailable"
)

 

For more details, please check the pbix as attached. If it doesn't meet your requirement, kindly tell me what is your excepted result.

Regards,

Frank

[Anonymous]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your reply.

However this calculation return the following error : 

Also on line no 9, isnt that supposed to be true() instead of false()?

Just trying to understand the logic.

Incase the logic was confusing let me interpret that in words:

When current location = Sold or factory only then 

do the below : 

if date < today() then show todays date

else( which means date  is not  < today) show min value of all the dates

in all other cases(when there is no date at all) show "data is unavailable"

finally if current location is not sold or factory then show

"NA"

Sample Output : 

Current Location	Est delive dt	Expected Output	Comments
Factory	22/09/2018	21/09/2018	assumed today() is 18/09/2018
Factory	21/09/2018		Expected Output column will be used on Tooltip later
Manufacturer	17/09/2018	NA	since current location is not sold or factory
Manufacturer	11/9/2018	NA	since current location is not sold or factory
Sold		Data Unavailable	If the date was less than 18/09/2018(today), we would have displayed that date here
Sold		Data Unavailable

[v-frfei-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Again, please check this one.

Column 2 = 
IF (
    IF (
        Table1[Current Location] = "sold"
            || Table1[Current Location] = "Factory",
        TRUE (),
        FALSE ()
    )
        = FALSE (),
    "NA",
    IF (
        Table1[Est delive dt] < DATE ( 2018, 09, 18 ),
        "Data Unavailable",
        ""
            & CALCULATE (
                MIN ( Table1[Est delive dt] ),
                ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[Current Location] )
            )
    )
)

Also please find the file attached.

Regards,

Frank

[Anonymous]

Your new calculation by logic should work but i dont know why it is still showing the parsing error.

I see that the date is converted into string by using "" 

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

That should be the issue of your column [Est delive dt], that should be in the format of date. Please change the data type of the column and try again, if it doesn't work, Could you please share your pbix to me?

Regards,

Frank

[Anonymous]

Hi Frank,

This worked perfect now.

Thanks a ton.

Also just wanted to know since the highlighted info is repeated twice, can I "group by" this info ?

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Do you mean when you create the column using the formula as I offered you got this error message? Or do you want to do some calculation using the calculated Column? As you know, it is a text column, so you cannot do that.

Regards,

Frank

[Anonymous]

Hi Frank,

The calculation that you offered shows this error.