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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
Convert Year Quarter format into date format
I am newbiee to PowerBI and trying to convert year quarter 1Q06 format to either date format (03/30/2006) or 2006 Q1 format by using power query.
Hi Anonymous,
to format from 1Q06 to 2016 Q1 use:
let Source = "1Q06", QuarterNr = Text.BeforeDelimiter(Source, "Q"), Year = "20" & Text.AfterDelimiter(Source, "Q"), NewFormat = Year & " Q" & QuarterNr in NewFormatAnd to convert from 1Q06 to the last day of a quarter use:
let Source = "1Q06", QuarterNr = Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Source, "Q")), Year = Number.FromText("20" & Text.AfterDelimiter(Source, "Q")), StartOfYear = #date(Year, 1, 1), EndOfQuarter = Date.AddDays(Date.AddQuarters(StartOfYear, QuarterNr), -1) in EndOfQuarter
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- NolockResident Rockstar
Hi Anonymous,
to format from 1Q06 to 2016 Q1 use:
let Source = "1Q06", QuarterNr = Text.BeforeDelimiter(Source, "Q"), Year = "20" & Text.AfterDelimiter(Source, "Q"), NewFormat = Year & " Q" & QuarterNr in NewFormatAnd to convert from 1Q06 to the last day of a quarter use:
let Source = "1Q06", QuarterNr = Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Source, "Q")), Year = Number.FromText("20" & Text.AfterDelimiter(Source, "Q")), StartOfYear = #date(Year, 1, 1), EndOfQuarter = Date.AddDays(Date.AddQuarters(StartOfYear, QuarterNr), -1) in EndOfQuarter