Lab 1 - step 4 filter dates

[AliceHHH]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with step 4 of Lab 1.

When I attempt to change the type of the 'Date' column from ABC to Date, the majority of rows come up as 'Error'. See screenshot below.

I cannot work out where I am going wrong.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Alice

[Anonymous]

@AliceHHH

Can you send me a link to your Lab?

[AliceHHH · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Thanks, we have worked out the problem.

I had forgotten to change my Regional Settings to "English (United States)" - it was set on English (Australia), so when PowerBI tried to convert the dates to the Australian way of writing dates, as DD/MM/YYYY, most of the months were out of range! Hence the errors.

Kind regards,

Alice

[MarcelBeug]

@AliceHHH glad to see that you solved your issue.

Please note that probably nobody over here has any clue what you mean with Lab1 - step 4.

I would appreciate if you can clarify that or provide a link where we can find it (if it is publicly available).

Should you raise more topics in this context, please provide the link (if possible) or otherwise a comprehensive explanation of the context.

[AliceHHH]

My apologies, I think I may have accidentally posted this in the wrong forum.

It is in relation to a PowerBI course I'm doing on edX:

https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-bi-microsoft-dat207x-5

Regards,

Alice

[MarcelBeug]

No worries. Good luck with your course! At least you solved one issue, so that must be promising.