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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...
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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

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      Anonymous
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      9 years ago
       

      Anonymous

      I need because when I play a field of the date type on the filter object the filter does not work as expected 

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        hohlick
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        9 years ago

        Hi Anonymous

        Can you add details about your problem with date filter? What tyope of date filter you used? What behavior you've expected and what went wrong?