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Dalla_Terra
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4 years ago
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Date Table Changed All Years to 1905

I have had a PBI Desktop model open and just imported some CSV data. After linking the date fields in this data to my Dates table I created it changed the year in all of my date records to 1905 yet t...
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  • v-yanjiang-msft's avatar
    v-yanjiang-msft
    4 years ago

    Hi Dalla_Terra ,

    This may be due to incorrect data type, if the data type of the year column is date, it will show the unexpected value.

    You should change the data type to whole number, it will show the correct value.

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Ganesh_Shinde77's avatar
Ganesh_Shinde77
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3 years ago

but changing data type to whole number does not work for time intelligence function

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vmundlye
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1 year ago

Agree with you, changing a YYYY source data column to Whole Number does not work for Time Intelligence, e.g. calculating YOY change, etc.