Dynamic YYYYMM in Power Query

[Anonymous]

Dear all,

Could you please support below issue:

I have a Power BI getting data from SAP BW. There is select month in parameter (Ex: 202011 for November 2020). I changed this one to a code base on the current date as below:

Currentmonth = Number.ToText(Date.Year(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))) & Number.ToText(Date.Month(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow())))

However, the result for month from Jan to Sep is only one character. It's not accepted as format of dataset. Could you please advise how can I adjust the code to return the value in 2 character.

Current result: 20201, 20202, 20203

Expected result: 202001, 202002, 202003,

Thanks much for your support!

[mahoneypat]

Please try this approach instead

= Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()), -1), "yyyyMM")

Regards,

Pat

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much!

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

Please try this change with Text.PadStart

= Number.ToText(Date.Year(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))) & Text.PadStart(Number.ToText(Date.Month(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))),2,"0")

Regards,

Pat

[Anonymous]

Hi Pat,

Thanks for your support.

Could you please advise if I want to create code for last month, how can I adjust this code?

As the previous one, I can minus to 1. But in this new one, it will revert the result is 202100.

let
#"LastMonth"= Number.ToText(Date.Year(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))) & Text.PadStart(Number.ToText(Date.Month(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))-1),2,"0")
in
#"LastMonth"

Thanks much!

[Jimmy801]

Hello @Anonymous 

you can use this formula for all your data needed (current month, last month, etc)

current month:

Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.FixedLocalNow()),-0),"yyyyMM")

last month

Date.ToText(Date.AddMonths(Date.From(DateTime.FixedLocalNow()),-1),"yyyyMM")

etc

Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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