Date Format

[Anonymous]

Hi There, 

I have a date column called "RDD" with dates e.g. "30.01.2018".

Based on that I want to create a new column "RDD Monat" with dates to be in MMM format e.g "Jan". 

What I did - I created a new column: 

RDD Monat = FORMAT('ORDER - Jumbo Query'[RDD].[Month];"MMM")

Unfortunately Power BI shows me the months in format "January" "February" "March" etc.

I want the months to be only in three characters e.g. "Jan", "Feb", "Marc" etc. 

How can I achieve that?  

Thank you in advance. 

Best

Anil 

[amitchandak]

You are taking ".Month" that is causing that.

You need to use date only

RDD Monat = FORMAT('ORDER - Jumbo Query'[RDD];"MMM")

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[jdbuchanan71]

Hello @Anonymous 

You should not have to call the .[month] portion of the date, can you try it like so?

RDD Monat = FORMAT('ORDER - Jumbo Query'[RDD];"MMM")

When you call [RDD].[Month] you don't get a date, you get "January" and formating with "MMM" needs a date.

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[Anonymous]

Hi @jdbuchanan71 , 

thank you for the quick response.

Thats true; now my column in data shows "jan" instead of "january". 

Unfortunately there is the problem that my line graph is not sorted by month. Now it shows Apr, Aug, Dec. Etc. 

Is it because the data is formatted as text?

The initial idea was only to reduce the month letters in my graphs. Is there another way?

Best,

Anil 

[jdbuchanan71 · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

You can add a column to correct the sort order.  What we need is the month number like so.

Month Sort = MONTH ( 'ORDER - Jumbo Query'[RDD] )

 Then you select the [RDD Monat] column and set the sort order to the [Month Sort] column.  Here is an example from another project on how to set the sort by column:

[Anonymous]

Thank you @jdbuchanan71 . It worked (as you can see in the lower figure in the screenshot)!

How ever, im still wondering if there is no "simplier" way to shorten the month to "MMM" directly in the figure / dashboard, without creating new columns. If its not the case your proposed solution is fine as well.