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swebb
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3 years ago
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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...
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    v-jingzhang
    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:

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Jing
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v-jingzhang
Community Support
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:

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
If this post helps, please Accept it as Solution to help other members find it.

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swebb
Helper II
3 years ago

Thank you, this worked for me.