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Looping with lists

Looping with lists

From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)

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Looping with lists

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- [Narrator] We want to create a new dates table and in order to do so we are going to use a few more helpful list functions. List.Generate creates a new list using loop logic. List.Sort puts a list in numerical order. And List.Combine creates a new list from two or more lists. In the M Language Objects Power BI file, we just created a dates table using list objects in the previous video. What if we want to create a date table, that only includes the pay cheque dates which occur every two weeks on a Friday? We first create a new group called Dates Testing, which we are going to add these queries to. We first create a reference date using a blank query. I'm going to turn the text value into a date value using the Date.From function. I know that August 23rd was a Friday. And I hit enter. I'm going to rename this query Reference Date. Now we go into create another new source and this time I'm going to use the List.Generate…

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