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Hello,
I have a range named "Tab" with dates in columns,
After some transformations, if I change the column "Attribute" to date type, I have a column with errors.
How to correct the last step to transform this column in date ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
| janv-23 | févr-23 | mars-23 | avr-23 | |
| Name | 94 | 21 | 74 | 78 |
| A | 65 | 57 | 37 | 84 |
| B | 54 | 38 | 30 | 29 |
| C | 23 | 23 | 90 | 92 |
| D | 68 | 62 | 84 | 57 |
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Tab"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type any}, {"Column3", type any}, {"Column4", type any}, {"Column5", type any}}),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Changed Type", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
#"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Promoted Headers", {"Column1"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Unpivoted Other Columns",{{"Attribute", type date}})
in
#"Changed Type1"
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Hi, @Mederic . Feed Power Query with correct date representation in "MMM-yy" format. As far as I know in "fr-FR" locale the date must be like "janv.-23", not "janv-23" and so on.
Hello @AlienSx ,
Thank you for your message and sorry for the late reply.
I hadn't thought about the regional settings, indeed the 2 steps below work and solve the problem
thanks again
Regards
#"Changed Type with Locale" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", {{"Attribute", type datetime}}, "fr-FR"),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type with Locale",{{"Attribute", type date}})
Hi, @Mederic . Feed Power Query with correct date representation in "MMM-yy" format. As far as I know in "fr-FR" locale the date must be like "janv.-23", not "janv-23" and so on.
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