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Anonymous
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9 years ago

How To Have Custom Formatted Date with Date Data Type

When I create a calculated column as:   Month Abbreviation Day = Format('Date'[Calendar Date],"MMM dd")  it has a data type of Text.   If I change the data type to Date then I lose the formatting. ...
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Sean
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9 years ago

Yes FORMAT converts value into text

 

I didn't see your requested MMM DD Format in the Modeling tab - the closest one I saw was MMMM D

but I suspect you don't want the whole month name.

 

 

EDIT: What problem do you encounter when the values are converted into text?

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Sean, 

 

Thanks for the response.

 

I need the labels to be as small as possible since I am trying to display a rolling 30-day X-Axis.   If I make them text, then the Continuous X-Axis doesn't work and the users want that since that is what they had it Excel.   Always an adventure trying go provide the same functionality.   It would be really nice if a custom format could be used instead of just the ones in the drop down.

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    Sean
    Community Champion
    9 years ago

    Anonymous

    Have you tried selecting the Show Items with no data - when placing the Formatted as text column in the Axis

     

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      Anonymous
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      9 years ago

      Great idea!   I gave it a try and the X-Axis displays correctly but I can't change the X-Axis from Categorical to Continuous.