Create date columm from odd text format

[RMDNA]

Hi all,

I'm running into an issue trying to create a date from an odd format.

From the below table, we have Year, Week Num of Year, and Day of Week Num. I need to turn the first row into February 1, 2018 and increment from there.

I've created a custom column of Year&Week&Day in an attempt to make a Column From Example, but I can't get it to switch to 2/8/2018 once we increment to week 2.

Any assistance?

[Phil_Seamark]

HI @RMDNA

What day of the week does your 1 relate to?  Is 1 a Monday or a Sunday?

[RMDNA]

February 1 2018 was a Thursday.

[Phil_Seamark]

Cool, how would I know that normally?  Can I hardcode that into the logic, or does the DAX need to work out other years too.

How come you need to start from 1st Feb (and not 1st Jan?)... just curious

[RMDNA]

The end goal of creating this date key to connect this table into my report's existing calendar table.  I'm using 2018 as an example, but the data for this particular table begins 2/1/2017.

The client's fiscal year begins on February 1st, for whatever odd reason. It's definitely caused some reporting issues...

[Phil_Seamark]

It should be easy enough to generate dates from those columns for 2018, I'm just worried about 2019.  Can I assume that it will start on the 1st of Feb and in that case - and I note that the 1st of Feb will be a Friday in 2019, will that sill be WeekDayNumber = 1?

[RMDNA]

At least for the purposes of this example and getting a starting point, we can limit it to 2018 for now. Sounds like you might have an idea for that?

[Phil_Seamark · Accepted solution]

HI @RMDNA

Please give this calculated column a try

Column = 
VAR BaseDate = DATE(2018,2,1)
RETURN 
    BaseDate + 
    ('Table 2'[DayOfWeekNum]-1) +
    ('Table 2'[WeekNum] * 7) - 7 

[RMDNA]

That seems to have worked. Scaling it out to additional years will be a future issue, but this should do for now. Thanks for the support.

[Phil_Seamark]

Hi @RMDNA

If I understand  your data correctly, scaling it out to other years could be as easy as the following tweak

Column = 
VAR BaseDate = DATE('Table 2'[Year],2,1)
RETURN 
    BaseDate + 
    ('Table 2'[DayOfWeekNum]-1) +
    ('Table 2'[WeekNum] * 7) - 7