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I need some help. I have created a conditional column where the output data is a date. Yet power bi changed the year to 1899. I 've tried multiple ways to change the date in the column and unable.
IF startmonth = January then #date(2021,1,1)
Thanks in advance
Solved! Go to Solution.
This is what I see. StartMonth is a text datatype (it should be a datetime). It contains 5 possible values (in the visible data) , one of which is blank.
The code in the added column is looking for text values of December, January etc which it will never find. The code always falls through to the "else" clause which is 0. A 0 date represents 1/12/1899.
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It looks like you want to get the 1st of the month for a non-blank date and put that in a new column. That's straightforward to do.
In Power Query, select the StartMonth column. Change the datatype to Datetime.
Go to the Add Column menu.
From the ribbon, select Date->Month->start of month.
That will get the 1st of the month and put null in for empty dates.
How does that sound?
OK, i see the code (and the result column). I also need to see the sample data from the table otherwise I can't debug it.
Please show us the code for the conditional column and some sample data please
that data is confidential, the data pulls from a sharepoint page
How can anyone debug if we can't see the StartMonth column?
sorry, does this help?
This is what I see. StartMonth is a text datatype (it should be a datetime). It contains 5 possible values (in the visible data) , one of which is blank.
The code in the added column is looking for text values of December, January etc which it will never find. The code always falls through to the "else" clause which is 0. A 0 date represents 1/12/1899.
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It looks like you want to get the 1st of the month for a non-blank date and put that in a new column. That's straightforward to do.
In Power Query, select the StartMonth column. Change the datatype to Datetime.
Go to the Add Column menu.
From the ribbon, select Date->Month->start of month.
That will get the 1st of the month and put null in for empty dates.
How does that sound?
I will try out your solution by tomorrow. and post outcome 🙂
= Table.AddColumn(#"Duplicated Column", "StartMonthDate", each if [StartMonth] = "January" then #date(2021, 1, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "February" then #date(2021, 2, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "March" then #date(2021, 3, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "April" then #date(2021, 4, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "May" then #date(2021, 5, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "June" then #date(2021, 6, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "July" then #date(2021, 7, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "August" then #date(2021, 8, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "September" then #date(2021, 9, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "October" then #date(2021, 10, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "November" then #date(2021, 11, 1) else if [StartMonth] = "December" then #date(2021, 12, 1) else 0)
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