topic Re: Creating a Date Table with only months in DAX Commands and Tips

Creating a Date Table with only months

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:06:31 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to created a date table, where each row is equal to one month, like:

January 2023

February 2022

March 2022

I've tried a number of methods for this but I can't seem to figure it out. For example, CALANDERAUTO() gives me a row for each day, rather than a row for each month as per below:

Any help would be greatlly appreciated!

Thanks

Re: Creating a Date Table with only months

FreemanZ — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:13:56 GMT

hi Anonymous

try to add a column like this:

MonthYear = FORMAT([Date], "MMMM YYYY")

Re: Creating a Date Table with only months

FreemanZ — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:19:13 GMT

hi Anonymous

or you wanna create a table from scratch, like this:

DateTable = ADDCOLUMNS( CALENDAR(DATE(2022,12,30), DATE(2023,1,1)), "MonthYear", FORMAT([Date], "MMMM YYYY"), "MonYear", FORMAT([Date], "MMM YYYY") )

Re: Creating a Date Table with only months

xh0050515 — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:24:53 GMT

Hi,

You can create a blank query and paste this code to generate desired results.

Please change the range as per your requirement.

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let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQ31DcyMDRQio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [StartDate = _t]),
#"Changed column type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source, {{"StartDate", type date}}),
#"Added custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed column type", "EndDate", each "12/31/2025"),
#"Changed column type 1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added custom", {{"EndDate", type date}}),
#"Added custom 1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed column type 1", "Date", each {Number.From([StartDate])..Number.From([EndDate])}),
#"Expanded Date" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added custom 1", "Date"),
#"Changed column type 2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Expanded Date", {{"Date", type date}}),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Changed column type 2",{"StartDate", "EndDate"}),
#"Calculated Start of Month" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Removed Columns",{{"Date", Date.StartOfMonth, type date}}),
#"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Calculated Start of Month")
in
#"Removed Duplicates"

Re: Creating a Date Table with only months

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:36:44 GMT

Hi Anonymous

You can refer to the following example.

Create a new table

Table = var a=ADDCOLUMNS(CALENDAR(DATE(2022,1,1),DATE(2023,1,1)),"Month Year",FORMAT([Date],"yyyy mmmm")) return SUMMARIZE(a,[Month Year])

Then change the data type to date, and the format to "mmmm yyyy"

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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