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Change month name language
Hi. I have made some reports with Power BI Desktop (English version) and I added a column in every report with the formula:
MonthName = FORMAT( 'date_field'[fecha]; "mmmm" )
This gave me the name of the months in English. I would like to change them to Spanish.
I have installed Power BI Desktop (Spanish version) and if I use that formula in a new report I get the name of the months in spanish. However, I can't do the same in the old reports, they remain in English even if I make a new column.
How can I change it without having to re-made all reports again? I'm using Spanish in the regional settings of the file.
Thanks in advance
Two ways
1. Go to file > options and settings > options > regional setting > select spanish
Save and close it . Then open
if it will not help u . U have to create one calculated column to replace the old column with same name.
Column = var Month_Name = FORMAT( 'date_field'[fecha]; "mm" )
return switch ( true(),
Month_Name=1, "Jan in Spanish"
.
.
.
etc
)
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Two ways
1. Go to file > options and settings > options > regional setting > select spanish
Save and close it . Then open
if it will not help u . U have to create one calculated column to replace the old column with same name.
Column = var Month_Name = FORMAT( 'date_field'[fecha]; "mm" )
return switch ( true(),
Month_Name=1, "Jan in Spanish"
.
.
.
etc
)
Thanks for the info. The regional setting didn't work. So I have used a calculated column.
Mes = SWITCH(MONTH('table[fecha]);1;"Enero";2;"Febrero";3;"Marzo";4;"Abril";5;"Mayo";6;"Junio";7;"Julio";8;"Agosto";9;"Septiembre";10;"Octubre";11;"Noviembre";12;"Diciembre")
Cool , Let me know if any help
Hi Baskar.
Just wanted to correct on your code example and give some variations to people.
In Power BI using comma as shown in example gives you an error, use semicolon ("Date" is the date column aka FulldateAlternateKey):
Normal Switch statement in-line
SpanishMonth = SWITCH(MONTH([Date]); 1; "Enero"; 2; "Febrero"; 3; "Marzo"; 4; "Abril"
; 5; "Mayo"; 6; "Junio"; 7; "Julio"; 8; "Agosto"
; 9; "Septiembre"; 10; "Octubre"; 11; "Noviembre"; 12; "Diciembre"
; "Unknown month number" )
Other examples passing string or integer with variable, note that an error will be flagged If you don't use the same data type in the switch comparison:
Switch on String Value
SpanishMonth2= var Month_Name = FORMAT([Date]; "m")
//"mm" returns "01", "02" etc. which will not compare to string value "1", "2" etc.
return switch ( true();
Month_Name="1"; "Enero";
Month_Name="2"; "Febrero")
Switch on Integer Value
SpanishMonth3 = var Month_Name = MONTH([Date]) //MONTH returns Integer.
return switch ( true();
Month_Name=1; "Enero";
Month_Name=2; "Febrero")For combined month and year column, I used Anonymous method (thanks!) as follows:
- Created RussianMonth column as above.
- Created Year column from Date column.
- Created Russian month and year column:
RUS_Month_Year = COMBINEVALUES(" ", [RussianMonth], [Year])
thanks that worked for me, wish you could define the language schema like in sql so all the results use that schema.:smileyhappy:
Hello,
For me, best solution to change language for Format function is to change the culture of the tabular model in pbix file.
To do this, you can follow this article on sqlbi : https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/changing-the-culture-of-a-power-bi-desktop-file/.
Thanks to Marco Russo.
It is by far the best solution, unfortunately this is only usable before doing anything else in the file...
In the old report go to file > options and settings > options > regional setting > select spanish, save, close desktop and re-open and try.
Go to data tab in the frnt end, select the field and make the forma you want.
I had this issue between US and UK dates. When i did this for some strange reason it worked :)
