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Jaxidian
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9 years ago
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Need a leading zero on a Month with DirectQuery

So I have a table that looks like this: ID int [Value] decimal(29,9) DateForSearching datetime YearNumber int MonthNumber int DayNumber int HourNumber int   I want to do a bunch of visua...
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  • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
    v-huizhn-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Jaxidian,

    First, you should click File -> Options and then Settings -> Options -> DirectQuery, then selecting the option "Allow unrestricted measures in DirectQuery mode" shown in following screenshot. When that option is selected, you can create calculated column and measures.



    As I tested, If function can be used in DirectQuery Model. I reproduce your scenario(connect to SQL Server database) and get the expected result. Create a column using th following formula, please see the result in screenshot below.

    Year-month = IF('HumanResources vEmployeeDepartment'[Month]<=10,CONCATENATE('HumanResources vEmployeeDepartment'[Year],CONCATENATE("-0",'HumanResources vEmployeeDepartment'[Month])),CONCATENATE('HumanResources vEmployeeDepartment'[Year],CONCATENATE("-",'HumanResources vEmployeeDepartment'[Month])))






    Please ckeck if you invoke creating calculated columns and measures as the solution above. If you have any question, please let me know.

    Best Regards,
    Angelia

BooDaa's avatar
BooDaa
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Thank you ebalcaen , just what i needed!
Any suggestion on how I can skip it if the the date is not yet set, or should I just filter them out in the visualisation? My result is displayed as "-0" now.

 



Best regards,
Fredrik

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ebalcaen2
New Member
3 years ago
Looks like I can't login to my old account 😞  But this should work with nulls and as an alternative to the solution below with the IF statement.
 

 

 

Year-Month = Year([DateColumn]) & switch(Month([DateColumn]),1,"-01",2,"-02",3,"-03",4,"-04",5,"-05",6,"-06",7,"-07",8,"-08",9,"-09",10,"-10",11,"-11",12,"-12")

 

 

  • BooDaa's avatar
    BooDaa
    Frequent Visitor
    3 years ago

    Oh yes! IF solved my problem.

     

    dateSolvedYearMonth = 
    IF( ISBLANK(AllRequests[dateSolvedLocalSE]), BLANK(), 
    Year(AllRequests[dateSolvedLocalSE]) & "-" & Right("0" & Month(AllRequests[dateSolvedLocalSE]),2)
   )

     

    Thank you again!

    Best regards,
    Fredrik