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Custom formatting date columns for visuals (still keeping the datatype to date)
Hello,
I have a date column which is recognised as "date type" by PowerBI. This column works as expected when put on visuals. However, I want to format the appearance of this date to "ddd dd/mm/yyyy" for visuals.
If I convert the column to the above format, it is not recognised as 'date' type anymore, therefore, visuals show the dates as "categorical values" rather than continous date values.
Is there a way to custom format a date column while preserving its data type?
I found the below solution from TomMartens
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- amitchandak
Super User
What is DDD here.
In case all dates are in dd/mm/yyyy format refer
Also refer
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/custom-date-and-time-formats-for-the-format-function
Hi amitchandak
I want to show dates as "Wed 12/03/2018" . Using the FORMAT() function is not helpful because it converts date column to "text", therefore, visuals then don't know that they are working with dates anymore.
I found the below solution from TomMartens
