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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
changing date format from text to date
Hello, I am creating a dashboard to be able to show controls that are expiring withing a certain period of time. This is my code: For this code to work with my data, the 'ITRMP Controls'[E...
- 4 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
You need to add a custom column to convert the date to dd/mm/yyyy format in Power Query Editor. Then convert the Custom column to date type.
= let mylist = Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("/")([Date]) in Text.Combine({mylist{1}, mylist{0},mylist{2}},"/")If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
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Winniz
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HotChilli
Community Champion
4 years agoYou have to find the correct way of getting the Expiration Date into a date type. Power Query has lots of different functions to handle this.
Please provide some sample data to see what we're dealing with.