Create new column for Fiscal Year

[JayTG123]

Hi all,

I have the following data in Power Bi  - I have seperated the three columns up individually however I wish to create a new year column that will display the year like 2021/22 (UK Financial Year) The year starts from April - March. I have tried other methords I found on these forums but I am unable to replicate the year followed by the forward slash / and then then the 22 afterwards.

[Nathaniel_C · Accepted solution]

Hi @JayTG123 ,
Go to Power Query, select Conditional Column, insert the code:

if [Offense date.2] >= 4 then Text.Combine({Text.From([Offense date.3]),Text.From([Offense date.3]+1-2000)},"/") else Text.Combine({Text.From([Offense date.3]-1),Text.From([Offense date.3]-2000)},"/")

Pics to follow.

Let me know if you have any questions.

If this solves your issues, please mark it as the solution, so that others can find it easily. Kudos 👍are nice too.
Nathaniel

[Nathaniel_C]

Hi @JayTG123 Here are the steps:
Go to Power Query

Select Add Column

Select Custom Column

Add a title for the column

Paste the code into the box click ok

Change the column type to Text

Let me know if you have any questions.

If this solves your issues, please mark it as the solution, so that others can find it easily. Kudos 👍are nice too.
Nathaniel

[JayTG123]

Hi @Nathaniel_C  thank you so much for responding!! I have done exactly as you said but I am now getting an error message in the new column.. please see below:

Expression.Error: We cannot apply operator >= to types Record and Number.
Details:
Operator=>=
Left=
Offence date.2=10
Right=4

[Nathaniel_C]

Hi @JayTG123  as it looks like you split out the date into these three columns, I assumed that they are whole numbers, am I correct?
Thank you,

Nathaniel

[JayTG123]

Hi @Nathaniel_C Yes this was a date column (eg: 30/11/2021) but I seperated it out into three columns - did I need to do this ? 

After I split the columns I then changed the type to Whole Number. 

[Nathaniel_C]

@JayTG123 I sent a link to my pbix, maybe that will be helpful.

Let me know if you have any questions.

If this solves your issues, please mark it as the solution, so that others can find it easily. Kudos 👍are nice too.
Nathaniel

[JayTG123]

THANK YOU !!! @Nathaniel_C  Its worked and thank you for taking the time to send me your test file over. 😀

Jay

[Nathaniel_C]

Hi @JayTG123, you are most welcome!  If you had kept it as a date column, you could have done something like Date.Year() to get the year from the date. Let me recommend "Master Your Data" by @KenPuls and Miguel Escobar!