CONCATENATE works fine with only numeric but as soon as I concatenate symbol it is spinning wheels

[_Regina]

Hi everyone,

What I am trying to do is- I have dates like 20230517 I want to display it like 2023-05-17

I have created the following measure

_Referral_date_formatted =

var a=SELECTEDVALUE('Onboarding Requests'[REFERRAL_DATE_DIM_SYSID])

var year_ = LEFT(a,4)

var month_ = RIGHT(LEFT(a,6),2)

var day_ = RIGHT(a,2)
return CONCATENATE(CONCATENATE(CONCATENATE( CONCATENATE(year_ ,"-"),month_),"-"),day_)

It is taking forever.

but when I try to return this

return CONCATENATE( CONCATENATE(year_ ,month_),day_) -- this works fine

I have kept the Data type of the measure as Text. any guidance here as to why adding the symbol is taking forever...

@lbendlin @ryan_mayu @AlexisOlson 

[v-shex-msft]

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[lbendlin]

Table = ADDCOLUMNS(DATATABLE("DateText",STRING,{{"20230517"}}),"Date",DATE(Left([DateText],4),mid([DateText],5,2),RIGHT([DateText],2)))

Use FORMAT([date],"yyyy-MM-dd")  for the UI.

[_Regina]

Still does not work, I have to do it via measure. and then I am creating a table visual where I am pulling in all the recirds so that users can see the relevant data, it is just that dates like 20230715 is not user friendly, I just want it to display differently in the table visual, The limitation is that I cannot create a new column.

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Date = 
var d = SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[DateText])
return Left(d,4) & "-" & mid(d,5,2) & "-" & RIGHT(d,2)