How to get the “Month Name” for the Year-Month combination column.

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I have a dataset which is in "Year Month" column combination such as “2017-07”.

I have created 2 calculated columns and used Year and Month DAX functions. It works fine.

But when I use Month Name and use Format function the date I get same information ("2017-07") for that new column as shown.

How could I get a Month Name using DAX?
Any help would be highly appreciated. 

[thiagopinho]

Hey Sandy, 🙂

What did you use to create that "Month Name" column??
to get the month names you may do something like this,

Transform that "Month Name" column to Date type,

To transform to Date type

and then extract the month name of it.

Date>Month>Name of Month

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks @thiagopinho for your reply ...

My issue was this actually 

Dataset has string value “Year-Month”



So I used CONCATENATE, YEAR, MONTH and  DATEVALUE DAX functions to achieve  this

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous,

You have solved this issue, right? If so, you can accept your reply as answer to close this thread. You can also create Month Name column using DAX below.

MonthName = SWITCH(Table[Month],
1,"Jan",
2,"Feb",
3,"Mar",
4,"Apr",
5,"May",
6,"Jun",
7,"Jul",
8,"Aug",
9,"Sep",
10,"Oct",
11,"Nov",
12,"Dec"
)

Regards,
Lydia

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous Thanks for suggestion.