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Change Text field to Date format

‎05-15-2019 08:59 PM

Hi All,

 

I have a column 'Period Key' which is used to join fact table and dim_date. This column has data of type string as 20170928. I am trying to to change this to date for below calculation.

 

TestDateFormat = FORMAT('Fact Table'[Period Key], "YYYY/MM/DD")
 
But it does not give me data for desired format. i want the data as 2017/09/28 (date type)
Looking for help.
 
Thanks.
 
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‎05-15-2019 09:10 PM

@Anonymous try this , add as new column

 

Date = FORMAT( DATE( LEFT( Table1[PeriodKey], 4 ), MID( Table1[PeriodKey], 5, 2), RIGHT( Table1[PeriodKey], 2 )) , "YYYY/MM/DD" )


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‎05-15-2019 09:10 PM

@Anonymous try this , add as new column

 

Date = FORMAT( DATE( LEFT( Table1[PeriodKey], 4 ), MID( Table1[PeriodKey], 5, 2), RIGHT( Table1[PeriodKey], 2 )) , "YYYY/MM/DD" )


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