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HanLee
Helper I
8 years ago
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Inaccurate/Incorrect Month Appearing in Filter

Hi guys,   Just had something odd happen. So I recently updated Power BI and noticed that it's done some odd things to my filter by adding an extra "month" labelled 30 September 2017.   My data i...
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    v-xjiin-msft
    8 years ago

    HanLee

     

    Thanks for sharing us your sample data. It helps a lot to repro your issue.

     

    Then for this issue, the newer version of Power BI desktop seems like will detect the text value automatically. And if the values are like date data, it will convert to date type automatically. You can verify this by checking at Edit Queries side.

     

     

    To resolve this issue, you can simply change the data type to text in above power query script in screenshot.

     

     

    Thanks,
    Xi Jin.

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v-xjiin-msft
Solution Sage
8 years ago

HanLee

 

Thanks for sharing us your sample data. It helps a lot to repro your issue.

 

Then for this issue, the newer version of Power BI desktop seems like will detect the text value automatically. And if the values are like date data, it will convert to date type automatically. You can verify this by checking at Edit Queries side.

 

 

To resolve this issue, you can simply change the data type to text in above power query script in screenshot.

 

 

Thanks,
Xi Jin.

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SJ354
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

v-xjiin-msft

 

Hi Xi Jin,

 

I am experiencing the same issue since January update. Initially, the issue was limited to Power BI Desktop, so was waiting for it to get sorted by next update. But, I am still experiencing it after March update as well. Moreover, now my clients are also experiencing this issue on Power BI Service, however, everything is good at my end(Power BI Service). I am able to see "October 2017" in my slicers and filters.

 

Would really appreciate if you could please let me know why we are experiencing this issue and the time line when this will be sorted by Microsoft.

 

Thanks,

SJ

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    HanLee
    Helper I
    8 years ago

    He is not a dev so probably cannot give you a time window for this to be fixed. I've tried looking on the forum to answers to this question but I was unable to find any information about it.

    MS may be unaware of the issue right now so it may not be fixed for some time. It doesn't look like all users are experiencing the same problem we are.

    • SJ354's avatar
      SJ354
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Thanks for the information. What should we do to make them aware of this issue. Do you have any email ID or something on which we can post our issue.

       

      Thanks,

      SJ