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Paridhisharma
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8 years ago
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columns with mixed data types

HI BI Folks,   I have a column of data type TEXT and it has both Dates and Texts:   Due Date 10/31/2017 09/13/2017 TBD 10/20/2017 12/01/2017 TBD   I want to create a new column for Due Da...
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  • fhill's avatar
    fhill
    8 years ago

    Create a 'Check Column' with 1900/01/01 for TBD.  Once created, now you can format this column as DATE format.

     

    CheckColumn = IF(Table1[Due Date] = "TBD",DATE(1900,01,01),DATEVALUE(Table1[Due Date]))

     

    Use this 2nd column to do the date checks and include logic to pull out the 1900/01/01.  ** Assuming you don't have any dates before 1899.

     

    Text = IF(Table1[CheckColumn] > TODAY(), "In Progress", IF(Table1[CheckColumn] = Date(1900,01,01),"TBD","Complete"))

     

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    Eric_Zhang
    8 years ago

    Paridhisharma

    You can also replace the "TBD" with a specific date, say "2099-01-01", then change the column type to Date in Query Editor.

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Paridhisharma

You can also replace the "TBD" with a specific date, say "2099-01-01", then change the column type to Date in Query Editor.

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Paridhisharma
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

HI Eric,

 

Thankyou for your response. 

 

But what if we have more text values coming in that column apart from TBD? Like Pending etc. 

 

ex:

 

Due Date

1/1/2017

TBD

1/2/2017

Pending

1/3/2017

 

As i am not sure of the different values we are going to get in that column, i want all the text values to be replaced by date 01/01/2099. is that possible?