Today I’m sharing a handy function with you that allows you to retrieve all or just a couple of dates between 2 given dates: Date.DatesBetween.
Usage
This function takes 3 parameters:
- From- or Start-date
- To- or End-date
- A selection of ONE of these intervals: Year, Quarter, Month, Week or Day
All dates will be created at the end of the chosen interval: So if you want to analyse events with a duration for example, where you want to transform your data to show one day per (monthly) event, this function generates month-end-dates for every month within the timespan. Please not that if the To-/End-date is within a month, the last element of the list will NOT be that day, but the day of the end of that month.
The default-value for the 3rd parameter is “Day”, so if you omit the specification, the function will return a list of all days in between.
Definition
How it works
This function uses Function.Invoke to create a compact code. In step “CaseFunction” (rows 12-18), a table is created that contains all the elements for a case-selection. The first column contains the case that is selected by the 3rd parameter. The other columns contain the functions and expressions for the cases.
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Table with all different elements for each case
Step “Case” filters that table down to one remaining record:
Case = CaseFunctions{[Case = TimeInterval]},
It uses a special row-selector { [NameOfTheColumn = Condition] } that only works for columns containing unique keys.
Step “DateFunction” has the command that creates the list of dates:
DateFunction = List.Transform({0..Case[NumberOfAddedTIs]-1}, each Function.Invoke(Case[LastDateInTI], {Function.Invoke(Case[TypeOfAddedTI], {From, _})} ))
Starting with creating a list with the length of the number of intervals (yellow). The next evaluation step uses Function.Invoke (green): This allows us to work with the function name as a variable from our Case-record. So whatever has been selected for “TypeOfAddedTI” (Time Interval) will be executed with From and the respective number from our list as its parameter (like: Date.AddWeeks(From, 2) for the third item of the list if “Week” is selected. The last evaluation-step (orange) will be Function.Invoke(CaseLastDateInTI) which shifts every returned date at the end of its Interval (here: Date.EndOfWeek).
Of course, this coding style is a matter of taste, but I found it worth sharing.
Enjoy & stay queryious 😉
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