topic Re: Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date in DAX Commands and Tips

Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

beaverbuzz85 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 03:42:53 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to solve a seemingly simple issue. I am trying to convert the following to a year.

1999/2000 to 2000.

1999/2000 (string)

My calculated column is this:

Tax Year = RIGHT('Year'[Financial Year],4)

But after I try to convert that calculate column to "Date" it returns this error:

"Cannot convert value '2000' of type Text to type Date."

Thank you for the help!

Re: Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

amitchandak — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:01:56 GMT

beaverbuzz85 , in case you need a date

Tax Year date= date( RIGHT('Year'[Financial Year],4),1,1)

Re: Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

FreemanZ — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 05:59:05 GMT

Date format needs the complete set of YYYY-MM-DD, but you only have YYYY. You can set it as text.

Re: Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

SamInogic — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 07:14:02 GMT

Power BI allows the DATEVALUE DAX formula with parameter as Text, which includes date value in MM/DD/YYYY format, so you need to add the below expression:

DateVal = DATEVALUE("01/01/" & RIGHT("1999/2000", 4))

Please refer to the below screenshot for the same.

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Re: Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

beaverbuzz85 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:13:21 GMT

Thanks for the clarification.

I understand that you can't forecast with a basic line chart while the x-axis is text (i.e. the supposed year as you have described).

Could you please confirm?