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Help with ISO dates!!
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to set up a report for my company and am facing difficulties calculating correct YTD and YTD-1 measures due to the fact that the date format in the data source is odd.
As seen in the picture above, the data source shows data for week 52 of 2022, which should be impossible. This is most likely due to week 52 2021 going into 2022, thus being identified as 2022. I've attemped to create a custom date column (due to the fact that my data doesn't include any specific dates, only week number & year), by combining year and week number into a column, then using this formula to create dates:
- Anonymous4 years ago
HI Anonymous,
I'd like to suggest you create a calendar table with the custom 'year week' field to link to the current table fields. Then you can use the related date field values for YTD calculations.
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
3 Replies
- amitchandakSuper User
Anonymous , Try if this can help
New column = Weeknum([Date],21)
- AnonymousNot applicable
Hello amitchandak. Okay, I've made the column. How should I proceed?
Thank you
- AnonymousNot applicable
HI Anonymous,
I'd like to suggest you create a calendar table with the custom 'year week' field to link to the current table fields. Then you can use the related date field values for YTD calculations.
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng