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Orstenpowers
Post Patron
6 years ago
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Text date into real date???

Good Morning everybody,   The below, highlighted date column is formatted as text. When trying to change the format into date, I got the error message that this cannot be done automatically!? What...
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  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi Orstenpowers ,

     

    Here we go:

    year = var year = RIGHT('Table'[Order Date],4)
var month =MID('Table'[Order Date],4,2)
var day =LEFT('Table'[Order Date],2)
return
date(year,month,day)

    Pbix as attached.

     

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
6 years ago

Hi,

In the Query Editor, selecting date works just fine for me.  See these screenshots