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Date Format in Slicer
- 8 years ago
Hello,
I had that issue on the previous company I worked for, Spanish company, but had the settings for british formating, so I had to change the default settings for most of the users, I'd say that's the issue here, since power bi is just using the user settings.
One thing you could try, just for the slicers, is creating a calculated column, using Format function and "DD/MM/YYYY", I'd say it should work.
Somehow I feel this is not the right solution....
Since your locale settings, be it in desktop or in service (Account settings), is all limited only to the user who does that.
I.e. If you change in your system, your desktop will show the date in the format of your need. Similarly, when you change in account settings, it appears of your desired format only when you view the report.
So this means that when someone else is going to access the report, the date format is going to be the same as it is by default.
So I would suggest that you go for this only if that report is dedicated for your use.
This is the reason why I don't feel this is the right solution and hence won't propose this as a solution when the report will be shared to others
Hello,
I had that issue on the previous company I worked for, Spanish company, but had the settings for british formating, so I had to change the default settings for most of the users, I'd say that's the issue here, since power bi is just using the user settings.
One thing you could try, just for the slicers, is creating a calculated column, using Format function and "DD/MM/YYYY", I'd say it should work.
- mingyeh19793 years agoRegular Visitor
I tried in my report but found if we converted the date format via Format function, it will prevent us from using between mode in Date Slicer (because data type changed to text instead of datetime?)