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Hi experts,
I am looking how to supply part of date table for CONTAINS function. This is part of my measure:
CONTAINS ('Date', DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],DATE(2017,5,1),DATE(2017,5,31)), [DateOfFirstBuy] )
and I get an error message saying that CONTAINS requires a column reference as an argument number 2. DATESBETWEEN function returns table containing a single column of date values, according to MSDN description. Is this not a "column reference"? How do I make a column reference?
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Hi @gvg,
Please see the syntax of CONTAINS, its second parameter must be columnName.
CONTAINS(<table>, <columnName>, <value>[, <columnName>, <value>]…)
However, DATESBETWEEN returns a table that contains a column of dates that begins with the start_date and continues until the end_date.
DATESBETWEEN(<dates>,<start_date>,<end_date>)
That is why you get such an error message.
In your scenario, to supplying part of date table, could you try:
Column = CONTAINS (DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],DATE(2017,5,1),DATE(2017,5,31)), 'Date'[Date], [DateOfFirstBuy] )
Best regards,
Yuliana Gu
Hi @gvg,
Please see the syntax of CONTAINS, its second parameter must be columnName.
CONTAINS(<table>, <columnName>, <value>[, <columnName>, <value>]…)
However, DATESBETWEEN returns a table that contains a column of dates that begins with the start_date and continues until the end_date.
DATESBETWEEN(<dates>,<start_date>,<end_date>)
That is why you get such an error message.
In your scenario, to supplying part of date table, could you try:
Column = CONTAINS (DATESBETWEEN('Date'[Date],DATE(2017,5,1),DATE(2017,5,31)), 'Date'[Date], [DateOfFirstBuy] )
Best regards,
Yuliana Gu
Try something like:
Measure 6 = VAR mydates = DATESBETWEEN(Dates[Date],DATE(2017,1,1),DATE(2017,3,1)) RETURN CONTAINS ('Table 3', [Date], DATE(2017,1,31) )
@Greg_Deckler , I am not sure I understand this. Do you mean I need to use variable? But CONTAINS does not accept variable, does it?
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