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swebb
3 years agoHelper II
Calendar dates issue
All, I have imported data from Dynamics Business Central to Power BI and I'm having some challenges with the dates. I exported financial data in Excel format from BC, but when I imported in to Po...
- 3 years ago
Hi swebb
A date value is composed with Year, Month, Day. If your Month column only contains month names like "January"/"Jan", it cannot be changed to Date as it doesn't provide valid Year or Day for the month. You need to concatenate the month with Year and Day, then convert the new column to date type.
For example, add a new column first:
Change the data type:
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HotChilli
3 years agoCommunity Champion
A month is not a date. We'll need some more information to get to the bottom of this. Please show us what you have and what you want.