topic Dateformat in DAX Commands and Tips

Dateformat

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:14:44 GMT

Hello everyone,

Can anyone help me to convert this text column into a date column?

The text value looks like this 15-FEB-20 11.00.00.000000 PM.

Re: Dateformat

az38 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:55:41 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

if you need exactly DAX, not M formula use:

a. for only date

ColumnDate = DATEVALUE(FORMAT(LEFT([Columntext],9),"General Date"))

b. for the datetime column

ColumnDateTime = var _date = DATEVALUE(FORMAT(LEFT([Columntext],9),"General Date")) var _time = TIMEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT([Columntext],LEN([Columntext])-10),".000000", "")) RETURN _date + _time

Re: Dateformat

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:35:43 GMT

When i try to run the formula i get this error:
"Cannot convert value '' of type Text to type Date."

Do you have any solution for this?

Re: Dateformat

az38 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:41:18 GMT

@Anonymous

do you have empty cells with data? if so, how do you want to calculate it? what date it should return?

Re: Dateformat

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:44:32 GMT

I have a column with date values like this one: "15-FEB-20 11.00.00.000000 PM." but they are formated as text and not date/time. I want to format the column from text to date/time.

Re: Dateformat

az38 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:53:18 GMT

@Anonymous

yes, but error "Cannot convert value '' of type Text to type Date." says to me that it is possible that you have an empty cells in your Date column. How do you plan to perform empty cells?

Re: Dateformat

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:54:42 GMT

Aaaaah! Yes now it works! I didnt see the blank cell.. Thank you!