Make SharePoint list dynamic?

Question

I have a Power BI dashboard connected to a SharePoint list. One of the columns in the SharePoint List is a "Today" column and automatically inputs the current date. The problem is that the "Today" column does not change day by day like it does in Excel. It remains as the date I inputted the list item but I want it to change every day to the current date.

This is very important in my project. Is this possible? Any help would be great!

Thank you

Answer 1

I answered my question by finding this link: https://sharepointlibrarian.com/2017/12/08/use-microsoft-flow-to-create-a-today-column-for-use-in-sharepoint-list-calculations/

Answer 2

you can't have a TODAY field in sharepoint, if the problem is power bi you will have to create a "today" calculated column inside power bi, sharepoint can't display a "today" date.

you can create it on the data view as =Today()
or create it on the query editor as DateTime.LocalNow()

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Today-Function-in-Column/td-p/85568

If you want to have a "today" field in sharepoint.. that's not going to be possible.

Answer 3

There is no real simple solution to this. The only thing you can do is to move the logic to evaluate the field to the outside of the list.

I had a very odd support case once where a customer wrote a site workflow that updated the fields value every day. But they expanded the workflow so it updated 15 lists, then it ran into a timeout and was restarted...over and over again.

Is there a way you can move the math that depends on today to the outside of the list?