See Attached Image. I imported data with a date column (red area). I realized I needed to change it to date format so I created a new column and entered the formula (blue area) to change the column to a date format, however if you look at the green area, the year is not lining up starting from 2013. How can I fix this? Also my data points are annual so I don't need the "day", "month" format, I just want the year if possible.
This formula is trying to parse textual representation of a date, while here you have the year part only. Also, parsing is unnecessary complicated for your case. Just use DATE function to construct a date from parts, like this:
dateFormatted = DATE([Calendar Year], 1, 1)
Which should give you January 1st date in each year (which I guess is the desired result):
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I have an excel file having a column with Text format values like Jan-18, Dec-19, Feb-20. I want to convert it to a date format but when I am trying to make this column a date format it printing 1/18/2021, 12/19/2021,2/20/2021. Basically its considering Jan as month(1), 18 as Date, & making all year as 2021 deafult.
Can someone help?
Original(text) After Date conversion Desired format
Jan-18 1/18/2021 01/01/2018
Feb-19 2/19/2021 01/02/2019
Mar-20 3/20/2021 01/03/2020
You can try,
DATE(2018, MONTH(convertedDate), 1)
This will convert your converted date to the first day of the relevant month in 2018. This is stored in Power BI as a datetime object. If you want to show that value in dd/MM/yyyy format you can do it by selecting correct Format in the top menu.
If you load in the Original column as text, try this trick:
Desired format = DATEVALUE ( "1-" & [Original] )
Appending the "1-" to the beginning gives it a day of the month and forces it to recognize the last digits as the year.
I faced with the same issue , while changing the format instead of using Date use the last option i.e "Using Locale... " -> in that change the Data Type from Text -> Date, and Locale to English(United Kingdom) -> Hit ok. Earlier Format ,What should be the desired format .This worked for me!
Hi I am trying to get total YTD amount for last year.
When I select October 2020 my current YTD amount works here is what it looks like :
YTDAmount = TOTALYTD(sum(PCSReport[PD]),PCSReport[PCSMonth])
However, I want to show YTD October 2019 and for some reason it is showing blank. This is the DAX I made :
LYTDAmount = TOTALYTD(sum(PCSReport[PD]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(PCSReport[PCSMonth]) )
Since your calculations are correct, here is what might be the problem.
To work with time intelligence functions (TOTALYTD,DATESYTD ... ) you must have at leat one date table with an active relationship to your fact table.
A date table is a table that meets the following requirements:
It must have a column of data type date (or date/time)—known as the date column.
The date column must contain unique values.
The date column must not contain BLANKs.
The date column must not have any missing dates.
The date column must span full years. A year isn't necessarily a calendar year (January-December).
The date table must be marked as a date table.
I have a column (monthyear) in the image below. I want to extract the Month and year from the column to put it in the new column. Note: In my dataset this information goes for every day of the year
So the new column would look like:
01/2020
01/2020
01/2020
etc.
In Power Query, use some of the date functions.
To get the year it will be
Date.Year([monthyear])
For the month, it will depend on how you want to format it. Using the month of June as an example:
To get 'Jun'
Date.ToText([monthyear],"MMM")
To get the month number in the format 06
Number.ToText(Date.Month([monthyear]), "00")
Just to get the number 6 it will be:
Date.Month([monthyear])
In DAX use the date functions
For year the calculated column will be:
YEAR([monthyear])
For the month:
MONTH([monthyear])
I would always do a much data transformation in Power Query when you can before it gets to the data model.
I have created two slicers in Power BI for Month and Year. These take the month and year value and in return generate a date.
Eg. Month - May & Year- 2019 generates 01/05/2019 with the help of the a measure formula :
MyFilterDate = DATE(SELECTEDVALUE(ListoY[Year]),SELECTEDVALUE(ListoM[Month],0),"01")
I want to subtract this date with one that is already in a column in the table.
I'm facing an issue when I try to subtract the measure from the existing column by writing DAX.
SUBVALNEW = DATEDIFF([MyFilterDate],Table[Date],DAY)
But when I try to do so, the result is not right. In fact when I try to check the value of [MyFilterDate] in the Data Model, it is not the same value as one calculated in the measure. (It instead looks like it displays the date in Table[Date])
Is there any way to subtract a Dynamically chosen date from a date in a column?
Any help would be appreciated.
I understand what your thinking patern is but power bi works a bit different. Dynamic measures cannot be used with calculated columns. When doing so the value of the measure is not set.
The way to go about this is by creating a Date table:
Date = CALENDAR(MIN(CalendarWeek[Date]);MAX(CalendarWeek[Date]))
Do NOT connect it to the model. From here you can make 2 slicers (based on the Date table). One your set to the month and the other to the year.
Next step is to adjust the MyFilterDate
MyFilterDate = DATE(SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date].[Year]);SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Date].[MonthNo]);"01")
Make SUBVALNEW a measure (cannot be a column because it is dynamic!)
SUBVALNEW = DATEDIFF([MyFilterDate];SELECTEDVALUE(CalendarWeek[Date]) ;DAY)
Ass the Measuer to your visual, see end result below)
I have a requirement, Ii have date slicer i have created the date dimension
Start Date = CALENDAR (DATE ( 1900,1, 1), DATE (2025,12, 31))
Now I have kept the slicer for this it shows like this 1/1/1900 - 12/31/2025
but the end user want to see the start date with default todays date i.e. 01/02/2019 start date & end date.JPG
and end date should show as 02/02/2019 instead of 12/31/2025.
Can anybody suggest me how can I approach this requirement?
Not quite sure what you're after.
If you're asking for to set a default value for a slicer, that's not possible yet. Upvote this at: Slicer default selected values
Also, when you're using DATES, please use the right syntax, for example:
dd.MM.yyyy
yyyy.MM.dd
Other relevant information that could solve what I think you're after: https://www.fourmoo.com/2017/10/03/power-bi-did-you-know-all-power-bi-services-servers-are-in-utc-now-how-to-handle-it-for-dates-times/