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Dbuck44's avatar
Dbuck44
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

New Date Column For Today

Trying to create a new custome Column called MthNum for the current month.

So if it's April 10, 2023 the value returned would be 4.  If it's Nov 22, 2024 it would return 11, and so on.  For Today's date, ie... when the user is using the system.

Need Help

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  • djurecic's avatar
    djurecic
    Super User
    3 years ago

    Hi Dbuck44 ,

     You can use the Month function to accomplish this:

    Something like below- edit to fit your table and column names.

    ColumnName= MONTH(Table[Datefield])

    Here is some additional information

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/month-function-dax

     

    You can also create a measure to get the month of today's date like so:

    Todays Month = MONTH(TODAY())

     

    Please consider accepting as solution if this has answered the question.

     

    • Dbuck44's avatar
      Dbuck44
      Frequent Visitor
      3 years ago

      I,m using the "Transform Data" in Power Query editor.  Selecting "Add Custom Column".  It's not accepting this new measure. Is this a syntax issue?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        3 years ago

        Hi Dbuck44 ,

         

        I helped you move your post to the Power Query forum.

        And you can add the custom column as follows. It will return the Month number.

         

        = Date.Month([Date])

         

        And the following will return the month name.

         

        = Date.MonthName([Date])

         

        And if you also want to return the month number of totay, chech this.

        = Date.Month(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()))

         

         

        Best Regards,

        Stephen Tao

         

        If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.