Change the date if it is before today

[Anonymous]

Hi all!  This is my first post and I hope you can help me. I have the following problem to solve. I have this date column and my goal is that if the date in the "Fecha" (date) column is less than today, the value is replaced by today. If the date is equal to today or greater than the date is kept. This is in PowerQuery

Thanks you all!
Regards
Bruno Bentancor.-

[Jimmy801]

Hello @Anonymous 

if you want to avoid to multiple columns handling, you can transform the existing one

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjTVMzTQMzJQitUBciyQOMYGSBwDQz0DS2SOBZgTCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Fecha = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Fecha", type date, "de-DE"}}),
    TransformFecha = Table.TransformColumns
    (
        #"Changed Type",
        {
            {
                "Fecha",
                each if _ >= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) then _ else Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())
            }
        }
    )
in
    TransformFecha

Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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Jimmy

[AlB · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

You can create a custom column with code like this:

if [Fecha] >= Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()) then [Fecha]  else Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow())  

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[Anonymous]

Excellent @AlB ! Thank you very much for your help 😄
It worked for me! 

Regards!
Bruno Bentancor.-