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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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Creating a Date Table with only months

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...
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    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    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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xh0050515
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3 years ago

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"