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I am trying to create a column that takes a date in mm/dd/yyyy and turns it into YearMonth. (The name of the column that I am working with is 'Procedure Request Form'[Date Request Submitted])
For example:
09/14/2001
10/15/2002
11/16/2003
will become
200109
200210
200311
I have tried using LEFT and RIGHT, but it doesn't work
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oh....!!! This should work now. 🙂
Column = IF(ISBLANK('Table'[Column1]),BLANK(),FORMAT(DATEVALUE('Table'[Column1]),"YYYYMM"))
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I used DATEVALUE, and I still get an error.
@i820017 Please try this:-
Column =
var result = FORMAT(DATEVALUE('Table'[Column1]),"YYYYMM")
return IF(ISBLANK(result),BLANK(),result)
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I justs did that, and I am still getting the same error.
oh....!!! This should work now. 🙂
Column = IF(ISBLANK('Table'[Column1]),BLANK(),FORMAT(DATEVALUE('Table'[Column1]),"YYYYMM"))
Best Regards,
Samarth
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This worked...thanks!!
I am still getting an error.
This is weird because Date Request Submitted is a Date as seen below.
Hi @i820017 ,
How about this:
YearMonth = FORMAT ( Table[Date], "YYYYMM" )
Does this solve your issue? 🙂
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Hi @i820017
You can create a column this way, Column = FORMAT ([Date Request Submitted], "YYYYMM" )
And you will get the desired result.
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