I'm new in Power BI and I'm more used to work with Excel. I try to translate following Excel formula:
=IF(A2="UPL";0;IF(MID(D2;FIND("OTP";D2)+3;1)=" ";"1";(MID(D2;FIND("OTP";D2)+3;1))))
in Power Bi as follows:
Algo =
VAR FindIT = FIND("OTP",Fixed_onTop_Data[Delivery Date],1,0)
RETURN
IF(Fixed_onTop_Data[Delivery Type] = "UPL", 0,
IF(FindIT = BLANK(), 1, MID(Fixed_onTop_Data[Delivery Date],FindIT+3,1))
)
Unfortunately I receive following error message:
Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.
My values are as follows:
Thank you so much for your help!
You cant mix Two datatypes in your output; In one part of if, you return an INT (literally 0/1), and is second you return a STRING
MID(Fixed_onTop_Data[Delivery Date],FindIT+3,1)
You must unify your output datatype -> everything to string or everything to INT
Your code must be returning BLANK in some cells therefore PowerBI isn't able to choose a data type for the column, wrap your code inside CONVERT(,INTEGER).
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I'm completely new on Office Script (with only old experience on Python and C++) and I'm trying to run a rather "simple" Office Script on excel from power automate. The goal is to fill specific cells (always the same, their position shouldn't change) on the excel file.
The power Automate part is working, the problem is managing to use the information sent to Excel, in excel.
The script take three variables from Power automate (all three strings) and should fill specific cells based on these. CMQ_Name: string to use as is.
Version: string to use as is.
PT_Name: String with names separated by a ";". The goal is to split it in as much string as needed (I'm stocking them in an Array) and write each name in cells on top of each other, always starting on the same position (cell A2).
I'm able to use CMQ_Names & Version and put them in the cell they're supposed to go in, I've already make it works.
However, I cannot make the last part (in bold above, part 2 in the code below) work.
Learning on this has been pretty frustrating as some elements seems to sometime works and sometimes not. Newbie me is probably having syntax issues more than anyting...
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook,
CMQ_Name: string,
Version: string,
PT_Name: string )
{
// create reference for each sheet in the excel document
let NAMES = workbook.getWorksheet("CMQ_NAMES");
let TERMS = workbook.getWorksheet("CMQ_TERMS");
//------Part 1: Update entries in sheet CMQ_NAMES
NAMES.getRange("A2").setValues(CMQ_Name);
NAMES.getRange("D2").setValues(Version);
//Update entries in sheet CMQ_TERMS
TERMS.getRange("A2").setValues(CMQ_Name);
//-------Part 2: work with PT_Name
//Split PT_Name
let ARRAY1: string[] = PT_Name.split(";");
let CELL: string;
let B: string = "B"
for (var i = 0; i < ARRAY1.length; i++) {
CELL = B.concat(i.toString());
NAMES.getRange(CELL).setValues(ARRAY1[i]);
}
}
I have several problems:
Some parts (basically anything with red are detected as a problem and I have no idea why. Some research indicated it could be false positive, other not. It's not the biggest problem either as it seems the code sometimes works despite these warnings.
Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type '(string | number | boolean)[ ][ ]'.
I couldn't find a way to use a variable as address to select a specific cell to write in, which is preventing the for loop at the end from working. I've been bashing my head against this for a week now without solving it.
Could you kindly take a look?
Thank you!!
I tried several workarounds and other syntaxes without much success. Writing the first two strings in cells work, working with the third string doesn't.
EDIT: Thanks to the below comment, I managed to make it work:
function main(
workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook,
CMQ_Name: string,
Version: string,
PT_Name: string )
{
// create reference for each table
let NAMES = workbook.getWorksheet("CMQ_NAMES");
let TERMS = workbook.getWorksheet("CMQ_TERMS");
//------Part 0: clear previous info
TERMS.getRange("B2:B200").clear()
//------Part 1: Update entries in sheet CMQ_NAMES
NAMES.getRange("A2").setValue(CMQ_Name);
NAMES.getRange("D2").setValue(Version);
//Update entries in sheet CMQ_TERMS
TERMS.getRange("A2").setValue(CMQ_Name);
//-------Part 2: work with PT_Name
//Split PT_Name
let ARRAY1: string[] = PT_Name.split(";");
let CELL: string;
let B: string = "B"
for (var i = 2; i < ARRAY1.length + 2; i++) {
CELL = B.concat(i.toString());
//console.log(CELL); //debugging
TERMS.getRange(CELL).setValue(ARRAY1[i - 2]);
}
}
You're using setValues() (plural) which accepts a 2 dimensional array of values that contains the data for the given rows and columns.
You need to look at using setValue() instead as that takes a single argument of type any.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/office-scripts/excelscript/excelscript.range?view=office-scripts#excelscript-excelscript-range-setvalue-member(1)
As for using a variable to retrieve a single cell (or set of cells for that matter), you really just need to use the getRange() method to do that, this is a basic example ...
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook) {
let cellAddress: string = "A4";
let range: ExcelScript.Range = workbook.getWorksheet("Data").getRange(cellAddress);
console.log(range.getAddress());
}
If you want to specify multiple ranges, just change cellAddress to something like this ... A4:C10
That method also accepts named ranges.
I have a data column of strings containing a lead status. I only want to count if the lead is qualified or nurture. I have this expression:
Is Qualified = If('Lead'[Status] = OR("Qualified", "Nurture"),1,0)
But I am getting this error:
DAX comparison operations do not support comparing values of type Text
with values of type True/False. Consider using the VALUE or FORMAT
function to convert one of the values.
I'm new with DAX and haven't been able to fix this one. Any help would be great, thanks.
OR() returns a boolean value. I assume 'Lead'[Status] is a text field, in which we will find some strings with the values "Qualified" or "Nurture". If this is the case you want to do the following:
IsQualified =
IF(
'Lead'[Status] = "Qualified"
|| 'Lead'[Status] = "Nurture"
,1
0
)
This is performing two tests, and combining them with a logical or ( || - the double pipe is DAX's or operator ).
I'm a beginner in Talend Open Studio, and I'm trying to do the transformation below.
From a SQL Table that contains:
DeltaStock Date
------------------------
+50 (initial stock) J0
+80 J1
-30 J2
... ...
I want to produce this table:
Stock Date
-----------
50 J0
130 J1
100 J2
... ...
Do you think this could be possible using TOS? I thought of using tAggregateRow, but I didn't find it appropriate to my issue.
There's probably an easier way to do this using the tMemorizeRows component but the first thought that comes to mind is to use the globalMap to store a rolling sum.
In Talend it is possible to store an object (any value or any type) in the globalMap so that it can be retrieved later on in the job. This is used automatically if you ever use a tFlowToIterate component which allows you to retrieve the values for that row that is being iterated on from the globalMap.
A very basic sample job might look like this:
In this we have a tJava component that only initialises the rolling sum in the globalMap with the following code:
//Initialise the rollingSum global variable
globalMap.put("rollingSum", 0);
After this we connect this component onSubjobOk to make sure we only carry on if we've managed to put the rollingSum into the globalMap.
I then provide my data using a tFixedFlowInput component which allows me to easily hardcode some values for this example job. You could easily replace this with any input. I have used your sample input data from the question:
We then process the data using a tJavaRow which will do some transformations on the data row by row. I've used the following code which works for this example:
//Initialise the operator and the value variables
String operator = "";
Integer value = 0;
//Get the current rolling sum
Integer rollingSum = (Integer) globalMap.get("rollingSum");
//Extract the operator
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("^([+-])([0-9]+)$");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input_row.deltaStock);
//If we have any matches from the regular expression search then extract the operator and the value
if (m.find()) {
operator = m.group(1);
value = Integer.parseInt(m.group(2));
}
//Conditional to use the operator
if ("+".equals(operator)) {
rollingSum += value;
} else if ("-".equals(operator)) {
rollingSum -= value;
} else {
System.out.println("The operator provided wasn't a + or a -");
}
//Put the new rollingSum back into the globalMap
globalMap.put("rollingSum", rollingSum);
//Output the data
output_row.stock = rollingSum;
output_row.date = input_row.date;
There's quite a lot going on there but basically it starts by getting the current rollingSum from the globalMap.
Next, it uses a regular expression to split up the deltaStock string into an operator and a value. From this it uses the operator provided (plus or minus) to either add the deltaStock to the rollingSum or subtract the deltaStock from the rollingSum.
After this it then adds the new rollingSum back into the globalMap and outputs the 2 columns of stock and date (unchanged).
In my sample job I then output the data using a tLogRow which will print the values of the data to the console. I typically select the table formatting option in it and in this case I get the following output:
.-----+----.
|tLogRow_8 |
|=----+---=|
|stock|date|
|=----+---=|
|50 |J0 |
|130 |J1 |
|100 |J2 |
'-----+----'
Which should be what you were looking for.
You should be able to do it in Talend Open Studio.
I attach here an image with the JOB, the content of the tJavaRow and the execution result.
I left under the tFixedFlowInput used to simulate the input a tJDBCInput that you should use to read the data from your DB. Hopefully you can use a specific tXXXInput for your DB instead of the generic JDBC one.
Here is some simple code in the tJavaRow.
//Code generated according to input schema and output schema
output_row.delta = input_row.delta;
output_row.date = input_row.date;
output_row.rollingSum =
Integer.parseInt(globalMap.get("rollingSum").toString());
int delta = Integer.parseInt(input_row.delta);
output_row.rollingSum += delta;
// Save rolling SUM for next round
globalMap.put("rollingSum", output_row.rollingSum);
Beware of the exceptions in the parseInt(). You should handle them the way you feel right.
In my projects I usually have a SafeParse library that does not throws exceptions but returns a default value I can pass together with the vale to be parsed.
Crystal 2008. Have record selection formula ending with
and
( ( "Zero" in {?Credit_Debit} and {V_ARHB_BKT_AGING_DETAIL.AMOUNT} = 0)
or ( "Credit" in {?Credit_Debit} and {V_ARHB_BKT_AGING_DETAIL.AMOUNT} < 0)
or ( "Debit" in {?Credit_Debit} and {V_ARHB_BKT_AGING_DETAIL.AMOUNT} > 0) )
but no matter what combination of values is selected for Credit_Debit the result set is the same.
Also without success, I tried joining the parameter array into a single string and using lines like
or ( {#Cred_Deb_Choices} like "*Credit*" and {V_ARHB_BKT_AGING_DETAIL.AMOUNT} < 0)
Using the first method works in the same formula when the parameter values are integers, as:
and ({?Location ID} = 0 or {V_ARHB_BKT_AGING_DETAIL.LOC_ID} in {?Location ID})
I examined the generated SQL, and saw that the part at the beginning that had no effect was not shown.
I changed a part that tested for a hard-coded value to instead test for a parameter value, and looked at the SQL again. No change.
When you try to create a filter that doesn't fit with the datatype of the field then that doesn't get reflected in record selection formula.
For Integer field give integers in record selection for text give text.
E.g:
ID=0 and Name='XXX' works
ID='Zero' and Name='XXX' doesn't
This should solve your issue
I'm using basic .net DataColumns and the associated Expression property.
I have an application which lets users define which columns to select from a database table. They can also add other columns which perform expressions on the data columns resulting in a custom grid of information.
The problem I have is when they have a calculation column along the lines of "(C2/C3)*100" where C2 and C3 are data columns and the value for C3 is zero. The old "divide by zero" issue.
The simple answer would be to convert the expression to "IIF(C3 = 0, 0, (C2/C3)*100)", however we don't expect the user to know to do that and at compile time I don't know what columns are defined. So I would have to programmatically determine which columns are being used in a division in order to construct the IIF clause. That could get quite tricky.
Is there another way to not throw an error and replace the result with 0 if a "Divide By Zero" error occurs?
Ok, I found a way. The key is to use Double and not Decimal for the column type, e.g. in the example above C3 should be a Double. This will result in a result of Infinity instead, which can be evaluated against using the expression as a whole.
E.g.
IIF(CONVERT(([C4] / [C3] )*100, 'System.String') = 'NaN' OR CONVERT(([C4] / [C3] )*100, 'System.String') = 'Infinity' OR CONVERT(([C4] / [C3] )*100, 'System.String') = '-Infinity', 0, ([C4] / [C3] )*100)
Decimal it seems doesn't provide that Infinity option.