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anna7
6 years agoNew Member
field date
hello i have imported in power BI a db where the date is written in letter. of course when i try to change in BI the type of the field and put it as date, the system gives me an error as the year i...
- 6 years ago
Hello anna7 and welcome to our community
supposing that your database is dated this year, you can apply a Date.FromText applying italian culture.
Here the complete example
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUUosKAKShkbGSrE6EJH0zFIgaWJqBhcpTi0BkuYWlnCRlMxkkC4LU4iQE5CTXwJSZGhsagIXgpptCjQ7FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Account = _t, Date = _t, amount = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes ( Source, {{"Account", type text}, {"Date", type text}, {"amount", Int64.Type}} ), ChangeDate= Table.TransformColumns ( #"Changed Type", {{"Date", each Date.FromText(_&"2019", "it-IT"), type date}} ) in ChangeDateCopy paste this to the advanced editor to see the result
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Jimmy
edhans
6 years agoCommunity Champion
In Power Query, simply add a new column that has this formula:
Date.FromText([Month] & " 2019")
A few things:
- The three char month is in a column called Month in my formula
- I assumed 2019 in the formula. Put whatever you need. 2020 if budgeting for example.
- This was using english month abbreviations on the english version. I tried with one of yours - Gui - and the formula returned an error, so this conversion is langauge specific.
- Note there is a space before the 2019 in the quotes, so Power Query is converting Jan 2019, not Jan2019.