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bvdm1980
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calendar month names

Hi, i am working in a Dutch company where this is also the language used in reports. So i need reports to be in Dutch language. 

 

All my regional settings are in Dutch. The Power bi menus are in Dutch. But still, if i use

*format (month (kalender[date]) , "mmmm")* 

in my calendar table, it returns English months instead of Dutch....how to change this? 

Oh and it also only gives back DEcember for first month from "date" field, and January for month 2 till 12....

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@Greg_Deckler 

never mind Greg, i solved it now with the SWITCH function to get my Dutch month names. 

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Greg_Deckler
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@bvdm1980 That seems like a bug as the FORMAT function supports other languages. FORMAT function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

 

That said, if the report is going to be displayed in the Service, then the easiest "fix" is to just use the native translation of the browser.


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@Greg 

First, thanks for your reply! much appreciated.

Allthough it didn't solve it. Here is example of what it now looks like. I have a DATE column, of which i can't change the name to Dutch DATUM , so i created a DATUM column as well based on DATE.

Then the month number, and then i want the long month name (januari / februari etc, being dutch names)

So you can see the DAX i used to create the long month name. As said its the English name, where al settings are in Dutch. And its the wrong name too, as December is put to month 1, while January is put on the other months. 

I used this DAX before but never experienced this tbh. So i have no clue where to look for the solution.

Well i can create a new table with month numbers and month names in dutch , and then somehow link this to calender. But that should not be the way to go imo. 

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@Greg_Deckler 

never mind Greg, i solved it now with the SWITCH function to get my Dutch month names. 

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