join 2 columns

[snifer]

I got a table with one column the year YYYY and one column the month MM, how I can create a date column where there will bee MM/YYYY ( column created must be formatted as a date in order to use them

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR function

[v-danhe-msft]

Hi @snifer ,

Could you please tell me if your problem has been solved? If it is, could you please mark the helpful replies as Answered to close this topic?

Regards,

Daniel He

[Anonymous]

I always prefer to do transformations like this in the Query editor for multiple reasons. You could approach this in multiple ways, here I will assume you dont have a day column and therefor map all to the first day in the month.

Go to the query editor:

- Create a custom column "Day" with this formula: "1" (you now have a column with value 1 in all rows)

- Highlight your Year, Month and Day columns in that order and under "Add Column" choose "Merge Columns", pick a custom separator "-" and apply. Name the new Column "Date".

- Format the new column as Date.

Hope that helps 🙂

[v-danhe-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @snifer ,

Based on my test, you could refer to below steps:

Sample data:

Create below formula:

Column = CONCATENATE('Table2'[Month],CONCATENATE("/",'Table2'[Year]))

And change the format:

Regards,

Daniel He