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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

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

I believe that the best solution is the following one that was provided by ebalcaen on 05/31/18.

 

This is much easier, and will work in all situations:

 

We add a zero to the month formula by using the concatenation operator (&). Then we use the Right formula to pick only the first two digits from the right.

 

Year-Month with Trailing Zero on Month:

Year-Month = Year([DateColumn]) & "-" & Right("0" & Month([DateColumn]),2)