Troubleshooting Simple Conversion of String to Date

[beaverbuzz85]

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!

[SamInogic]

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.

Thanks!

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[FreemanZ]

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

[beaverbuzz85]

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?

[amitchandak]

@beaverbuzz85 , in case you need a date

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