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henryhuynhpham
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Month Column

‎10-23-2023 08:43 PM

I have not been using Power Bi for a while so I am kinda rusty. Currrently I have 4 Excel files of 4 continuous months and they all do not have a month column. I have manually combined them into one file and added a month column for visualization and apparently Power BI does not pick up on that. I tried to change the type from text to date but I gave me an error and can't convert it. Anyone has any idea how to fix it?

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Jihwan_Kim
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‎10-23-2023 09:00 PM

Hi,

One of ways to achieve this is to have a Calendar Dimension Table, connect it to the fact table, and get the Month name column from the dimension table for visualizations.

Thank you.


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Jihwan_Kim
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‎10-23-2023 09:00 PM

Hi,

One of ways to achieve this is to have a Calendar Dimension Table, connect it to the fact table, and get the Month name column from the dimension table for visualizations.

Thank you.


If this post helps, then please consider accepting it as the solution to help other members find it faster, and give a big thumbs up.


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