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pooramit4
2 years agoNew Member
Alphanumeric column error
I am PBI beginer. I have a dataset in excel with Duration column as Alphanumeric. Below is the snapshot When loading it to Power BI, getting error for YTD. Is there any other way to write thi...
- 2 years ago
Good morning pooramit4 ,
To cater for your data being numeric and alphanumeric I've added an initial conversion to text - Text.From(_), I finish by converting text values back to numeric - Value.FromText(...). If you add the following step to your Power Query query your data it will produce an output of numeric dates. Replace #"Previous Step" with the name of your previous step.
= Table.TransformColumns(
#"Previous Step",
{{"Duration",
each if Text.StartsWith(Text.From(_),"YTD")
then Value.FromText("20" & Text.Range(_,7,2) & Text.Range(_,4,2))
else _, type text
}})This...
gives...
Hope this helps.