SwiftGlimpse Large A0 Blank Reusable One Month Wall Calendar Wet Erase Laminated Monthly Wall Planner (122cm x 91cm)

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Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "MonthID", each (Date.Year([Date]) - Date.Year(StartDate))*12 + Date.Month([Date])) While we love a pre-made advent calendar – such as our favourite craft advent calendars or stationery advent calendar options – there's something extra lovely about a reusable advent calendar you can fill with treats of your choosing. After doing this, something strange happened. A new query was created (two below) and this new query passes the parameters to the first query (shown in 3 below). Let me explain this further.

There are plenty of options when it comes to filling your reusable advent calendar. You can keep it simple with sweets, chocolates, or homemade biscuits, of course, or you could pop decorations inside each pouch to add to the Christmas tree each day. You could also try wrapped gifts (small trinkets and toys work well), or even clues to festive activities that you have planned for the day ahead. The world is your oyster, quite frankly! Designed to be reused every year, wooden and fabric advent calendars make brilliant Christmas decorations. Some are shaped like Christmas trees, while others have been designed to hang along the fireplace (such as this beautiful design from Ginger Ray). Ideally, you'll want your reusable advent calendar to last for years to come. With that in mind, then, look for quality and durable materials – as well as robust designs. Make sure you know, too, how you will be displaying it: will it hang from a sturdy string, for example, or is it free-standing? And it's also a good idea to make sure the drawers aren't too flimsy or small, as there's nothing worse than buying a reusable advent calendar that you can't fit anything in!

Step 3: Build out the Calendar

From the documentation above, I can see that there are no parameters required for this function. So I just added () to the end of the function to return the current date/time. You can see once again that this is a scalar value (not a table) because you can “see” the value below the formula bar. Inserted Day Name" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Month Name", "Day Name", each Date.DayOfWeekName([Date]), type text),

These eco-friendly advent calendars offer a sustainable way to countdown to Christmas while supporting ethical and environmentally conscious brands. By choosing reusable and refillable options, you can create a greener, more eco-conscious holiday season that brings joy to both you and the planet. The next problem is that this is Date/Time format. I only want Date format, so I wrapped a DateTime.Date() function around the code to extract the date portion (shown below). I renamed this step Today. Each time the query is refreshed, this step will automatically update to reflect the current date. Great. Now the user can manually change the StartDate step to any date, and the calendar will auto grow in length. Actually this code will grow up to yesterday’s date. You can simply add 1 to the Length to make it grow up to and including the current date.

Step 1: Create a list of dates

As well as being something you can treasure rather than throw away after using, a fabric advent calendar allows you to choose bespoke token gifts the recipient will love. Whether favourite chocolates, festive nik naks, mini toys, stationery or even little notes with Christmas activity ideas, there is so much scope for how you can make this a personalised advent calendar. Plus, filling your own advent calendar can often be cheaper than buying one from scratch. mini bars in a mix of four scrumptious flavours (Smooth, Hazelnut, Fruit & Nut, Salted Caramel Truffle) I therefore added an integer based ID column to identify each month over all time. This new column starts at 1 and increases by 1 forever. (Date.Year([Date]) - Date.Year(StartDate))*12 + Date.Month(Date) Copy the Code to Reuse the Power Query calendar table It is important to add an ID column that supports the creation of custom time intelligence formulas. I cover time intelligence in detail here. The YYMM column is not useful for time intelligence because the gap between each number is not evenly spaced. eg 1711, 1712, 1801, 1802… I created columns for fiscal year, quarter, month, etc. so I assume calculating this once, as above, is more efficient than doing the calculation for every fiscal column. (I may be wrong – Microsoft could be optimising the additional recalculations away).

With that in mind, then, we're off to try and choose which of the best reusable advent calendars will be gracing our home for years to come. Now the John Lewis Christmas advert 2023 has landed the countdown is well and truly on. However, for those of you looking for a Christmas craft project, we've included some fabric advent calendar kits. And we also have a step-by-step guide and video tutorial to how to make a charming DIY advent calendar of adorable felt booties.From beautiful hand-stitched designs to miniature wooden houses, reusable advent calendars will delight kids and grown-ups for years to come. Single-use advent calendars may look new and novel, but they are hard to recycle and promote unsustainable shopping habits we should be moving away from. To create a calendar table in power query, I’m going to start off by creating a blank query. Get Data\Other\Blank Query. This simply creates a new query with no data in it, and importantly no data source. windows of different flavours of FairTrade milk, dark, and white chocolate wrapped up in festive colours. I simply replaced this code (3 above) with the actual date (1/1/2016 in this case), and renamed the step StartDate. Note there is no equals sign used, just the date entered as 1/1/2016. This new step called StartDate is a hard coded step in the query that stores the required start date as a scalar value. You can tell it is a scalar value because the results pane below the Formula Bar is displaying the scalar value, not a table (1 below). (Note it is possible to use a parameter instead of a custom step, but this would create an additional query – I prefer to have everything embedded in the same master query).