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Ashish_kumar12
Helper I
7 years agoError:An argument of function 'DATE' has the wrong data type or the result is too large or too small
Hi All, I am trying make an new column where i want to compare today's week num and year with Date of birth of candidates (i.e 18-sep-1989 with today's date(18-Sep-2019). However i am getting an err...
- 7 years ago
hi, Ashish_kumar12
This error is because there are blank value in field_date_of_birth column, just adjust your formula as below:
DOB_View = IF(ISBLANK(Union_Table[field_date_of_birth])=FALSE(), IF ( WEEKNUM ( DATE ( YEAR ( TODAY () ), MONTH ( Union_Table[field_date_of_birth] ), DAY ( Union_Table[field_date_of_birth] ) ), 2 ) = WEEKNUM ( TODAY (), 2 ), "This Week", "All Others" ) , "All Others")Result:
BeforeAfter
Best Regards,
Lin
- 7 years ago
Hi Lin,
Thank you for your help. It works and i managed to make this column.
Regards,
Ashish
Ashish_kumar12
Helper I
7 years agoHi Amit,
Thank you for your revert.
Do you changed the data type from text to Date?
As it still giving me the same errors. Please see below screenshot for the same
amitchandak
Super User
7 years agoI think it is still taking it as a text. Use format and convert to date in a new column
check example on this
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Converting-from-Text-to-Date/td-p/133251