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Anonymous
3 years agoNot applicable
Generating a TimeGenerated column from the Source.Name
Hello all, I'm fairly new to powerBi and I couldn't figure out how to get this working in power Query. I have a dataset like this: Source.Name DeviceCount Devices20230508.json 215 D...
- 3 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
Add this as a new custom column:
let numbers = Text.Select([Source.Name], {"0".."9"}) in #date( Number.From(Text.Start(numbers, 4)), Number.From(Text.Middle(numbers, 4, 2)), Number.From(Text.End(numbers, 2)) )For this output:
Full example query:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wckkty0xOLTYyMDI2MDWw0Msqzs9TitVBljAyNDIyhUrEAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Source.Name = _t]), addTimeGenerated = Table.AddColumn( Source, "Time Generated", each let numbers = Text.Select([Source.Name], {"0".."9"}) in #date( Number.From(Text.Start(numbers, 4)), Number.From(Text.Middle(numbers, 4, 2)), Number.From(Text.End(numbers, 2)) ) ) in addTimeGeneratedPete
BA_Pete
3 years agoSuper User
Hi Anonymous ,
Add this as a new custom column:
let numbers = Text.Select([Source.Name], {"0".."9"}) in
#date(
Number.From(Text.Start(numbers, 4)),
Number.From(Text.Middle(numbers, 4, 2)),
Number.From(Text.End(numbers, 2))
)
For this output:
Full example query:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wckkty0xOLTYyMDI2MDWw0Msqzs9TitVBljAyNDIyhUrEAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Source.Name = _t]),
addTimeGenerated =
Table.AddColumn(
Source,
"Time Generated",
each let numbers = Text.Select([Source.Name], {"0".."9"}) in
#date(
Number.From(Text.Start(numbers, 4)),
Number.From(Text.Middle(numbers, 4, 2)),
Number.From(Text.End(numbers, 2))
)
)
in
addTimeGenerated
Pete
Anonymous
3 years agoNot applicable
Hi Pete,
Awesome, thank you so much for your help! You saved me a lot of headache!
Tim