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hannahs5
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Creating Fiscal Year Text column in date table

I'm trying to find a way to connect my date table to a table that includes students' grade reports. The student grade report does not have a true date column. There are two columns that contain text that indicate the school year and term that the grades were earned, like below:

School YrTerm
202122Fall
202223Winter
201920Spring
201819Winter

 

My thought is that I should create a column in my date table that identifies all dates from July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 as the text 201819 (and all dates from July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 as 201920 etc) so that I can relate it to the School Year column of the grade reports.

 

Assuming it's possible, how can I use DAX to create this column?

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FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

hi @hannahs5 

in your date table, try to add a column with this
AcadYear =
VAR _year = YEAR([Date])
VAR _month = MONTH([Date])
RETURN
IF(
    _month>=7,
    _year&RIGHT(_year+1, 2),
    (_year-1)&RIGHT(_year, 2)
)

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FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

hi @hannahs5 

in your date table, try to add a column with this
AcadYear =
VAR _year = YEAR([Date])
VAR _month = MONTH([Date])
RETURN
IF(
    _month>=7,
    _year&RIGHT(_year+1, 2),
    (_year-1)&RIGHT(_year, 2)
)

checked and it worked like this:

FreemanZ_0-1671239318977.png

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