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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Concatenate Alphabetically

I have two fields of type date and I need to concatenate them, but when I do this they stop being of type date and they happen to be type text, and when I try to convert through power bi is occurring error informing that it is not possible to convert, I tried Convert through the measure but without success, how can I solve this?

 

Column = IndicatorValue [StartDateTime] & "-" & IndicatorValue [EndDateTime]

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    Anonymous
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    9 years ago

    Anonymous,

    This is expected behavior.  After you concatenate two date type fields, the values in the new column are like “2/3/2017-5/1/2017”, which are not valid Date format. Thus you are not able to convert the column form Text type to Date type.

     

    Regards,
    Lydia

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      Anonymous
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      9 years ago

      Anonymous

      Any suggestions for turning this column into date?

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        Anonymous
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        9 years ago

        Anonymous,

        It is not possible to convert value such as "2/3/2017-5/6/2017" from text type to Date type as the value is not a valid date value.

        Why do you need to concatenate two Date type columns and convert the new column to Date type?

        Regards,
        Lydia