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Anonymous
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Extract date from text

Hello All,

 

I have a stand alone table in Live connection to tabular model. I am trying to create a report level measure as i dont have access to Tabular model.

 

I have a column FX_DATEKEY but the value appears like below. I am trying to extract the date from that column, another catch is FX_DATEKEY is read only column.

 

Current FX rate USD        FX_DATEKEY
1.7888                         fxrates.br-20120101

 

I tried, this, 

DateFx =
RIGHT('HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY],8)
 
But this is not working, can you please?
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Sorry for the miss direction but when handling with live connections on tabular models some expressions are not valid try the following:

 

DateFx =
RIGHT ( LASTNONBLANK ( 'HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY], 0 ), 8 )

Regards,

MFelix


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MFelix
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Since you are using a measure you need to give grouping to your measure try to use the following measure:

DateFx =
RIGHT(SELECTEDVALUE('HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY]),8)

Regards,

MFelix

 


Regards

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Anonymous
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Thank you so much for quickly looking into this.

 

I tried the below, it fails at SELECTEDVALUE, i tried ALLSELECTED instead of SELECTEDVALUE, the error disappeared, however i got an error. "Calculation error in Measure: A table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected", can you please help?

 
DateFx = 
RIGHT(SELECTEDVALUE('HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY]),8

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Try to use the:

DateFx = RIGHT(MAX('HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY]),8)

 

Regards,

MFelix

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Sorry for the miss direction but when handling with live connections on tabular models some expressions are not valid try the following:

 

DateFx =
RIGHT ( LASTNONBLANK ( 'HFM FX Rate Actual'[FX_DATEKEY], 0 ), 8 )

Regards,

MFelix


Regards

Miguel Félix


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



Anonymous
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Thank you so much it worked.

Anonymous
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It wasnt working and returns the error below.  😞

err.PNG

 

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