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Power BI Text to Date conversion - Extreme newbie
The lowest form of data I have on the origial data is "2024 Q1"Add a Date column to your data, for example the first day of that quarter. Use the Date column to join to the calendar table.
Super UserHey lovelylemon. Here's a solution you could look at for your query. I'll attach the images of the output, the input and the snippet of the code for your reference. Thanks
Hi, this looks what I was looking for, though user incompetence is stopping me from actioning it (completly new to power query /BI) .
I can see the steps, but can you breakdown the actions so I understand it? I have tried to replicate the advanced editor but I got an error.- SundarRaj
Sure lovelylemon
1. The first two steps basically imports the data and sets the data type.
2. List: Table.Transform Function helps me make alternations to the column I am working with which is Fiscal Quarter column in your case. What I am trying to do is basically split the text by a space into a List of 2 items i.e. 2024 and Q1. Post Splitting I am replacing any text with "Q" to a blank which aids me in havings inputs for a date.
3. Similarly, the next code simply just uses the #date function. Since we have a list of 2 items originally, to create a date, I would need a year, month and day. For the year, Number.From(_{0}), this essentially means I am extracting the first item of the list and converting it into a number and using it as a year input for #date.
4. Similar thing has been done for Month as well and day has been taken as 1 by default.
Let me know if you would need any more clarifications on any piece of code written. Thanks
