Dynamic Indexing on Current day receiving time

[insandur]

Hi Experts😀,

I want to have a dyanamic index column based on recieving time of current day.

Eg. Every day i recieve 'Receieved Time' column and keeps changing everyday it might start from 5AM and next day it can be from 7 AM. Howverver i want to get index as 1 for starting hour like 5AM and 2 for next hour 6AM and so on.

Below are the reference table.

Received Time	Required Index		Next day it might be	Required Index
5/14/2024 5:00	1		5/15/2024 7:00	1
5/14/2024 6:00	2		5/15/2024 8:00	2
5/14/2024 7:00	3		5/15/2024 9:00	3
5/14/2024 8:00	4		5/15/2024 10:00	4
5/14/2024 9:00	5		5/15/2024 11:00	5
5/14/2024 10:00	6		5/15/2024 12:00	6
5/14/2024 11:00	7		5/15/2024  13:00:00 PM	7

[v-jingzhan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @insandur 

If you only have one day's data in this table every day, you can change the "Received Time" column to Datetime type, sort table by "Received Time" column ascendingly, then add an Index column starting from 1. 

Best Regards,
Jing
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