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koorosh
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YearMonth Column

Hello All, Why I can not create the YearMonth column in the linked file through the following DAX :

Date = FORMAT(DATE('Table'[YERR],'Table'[Month],1),"MM-YYYY")

How I can create it?

 

Regards

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10bitgpHEhLOifBtmQVVOJThQhfjDH_Wb/view?usp=sharing

 

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Vijay_A_Verma
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You will need to use following

= FORMAT(DATE(YEAR('Calendar'[Year]),'Calendar'[Month Number],1),"MM-YYYY")

In your YEAR column, you have used STARTOFYEAR which gives a date. But in DATE, it needs a number for YEAR. YEAR('Calendar'[Year]) provides that year number.

Second problem was that you were using month name as second argument for Date whereas it needed a number 1-12 which should have been provided through 'Calendar'[Month Number].

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Vijay_A_Verma
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Looks like you have misspelled Year as YERR that is why you must be getting error.

Since, your pbix file refers to a csv file, hence data is not visible to me. But you can always refer to date field itself. i.e. even following would work

=FORMAT('Table'[Date],"MM-YYYY")

 

Vijay_A_Verma
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Use this

Year Month = FORMAT('Calendar'[Date],"MM-YYYY")

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Where is the problem with the following, please ?

MonthYear = FORMAT(DATE('Calendar'[YEAR],'Calendar'[Month Name],1),"MM-YYYY")
 

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Vijay_A_Verma
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You will need to use following

= FORMAT(DATE(YEAR('Calendar'[Year]),'Calendar'[Month Number],1),"MM-YYYY")

In your YEAR column, you have used STARTOFYEAR which gives a date. But in DATE, it needs a number for YEAR. YEAR('Calendar'[Year]) provides that year number.

Second problem was that you were using month name as second argument for Date whereas it needed a number 1-12 which should have been provided through 'Calendar'[Month Number].

PaulDBrown
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Try:

MonthYear = FORMAT(Table[Month], "00") & "-" & Table[Year]





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Where is the problem with the following, please?

MonthYear = FORMAT(DATE('Calendar'[YEAR],'Calendar'[Month Name],1),"MM-YYYY")

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