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Anonymous
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Numbersequence is not recognized as date

Hi all,

i have following issue. 

I have this column from a DWH. Unfortunately PowerBI doesnt give me the desired transformation from numbers to date...

Enddatum means end dateEnddatum means end date after editing from number to dateafter editing from number to date

 

any ideas?

 

Help is much appreciated...

 

thanks in advance

 

BR,

Paul

 

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FrankAT
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @Anonymous,

your Enddatum must be first set to text type, then to date type.

 

Regards FrankAT

 

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FrankAT
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @Anonymous,

your Enddatum must be first set to text type, then to date type.

 

Regards FrankAT

 

Anonymous
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thank you all.

@FrankAT very smooth solution

 

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

Seem like if did not recognize as date . You can create a new date column like

date = date(year(left([Col],4)),month(mid([Col],5,2)),day(right([Col],2)))

 

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ImkeF
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Hi @Anonymous 

in the query editor try :

 

Date.From( Text.From( [Enddatum] ) )

 

 

 

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