How to join a letter with a quarter number ( Q with 1 to make it Q1)

[kashahzad]

Hello folks,

I created a slicer to show the quarters but the slicer shows the numbers for each quarter i.e 1 2 3 4,  however, I want this to be Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4. I decided to use the concatenate function but the function takes only the text values and not the column reference. Any ideas how I can achieve this? I'll appreciate your help.

Thanks!

[harshnathani]

Hi @kashahzad ,

Create a Calculated Column in your Calendar Table.

QuarterName =
"Q"
    & INT (
        DIVIDE (
            Calendar[MonthOfYear],
            4
        )
    ) + 1

Regards,

Harsh Nathani

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[AntrikshSharma]

If you are trying to add a column, you could use 

Quarter= FORMAT ( Dates[Date], "\QQ" )

[kashahzad]

Hi @AntrikshSharma 

Thank you for looking into it, I do not have the column with dates, I have separate columns for months, quarters and years, so this function does not fit.

[AntrikshSharma]

Can you show what your columns look like? 

[kashahzad]

Hi @AntrikshSharma,

I have added the image in the original question.

[AntrikshSharma]

You could try this:

Quarter = 
VAR MonthName = Dates[Month]
VAR Result =
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        MonthName IN { "January", "February", "March" }, "Q1",
        MonthName IN { "April", "May", "June" }, "Q2",
        MonthName IN { "July", "August", "September" }, "Q3",
        "Q4"
    )
RETURN
    Result

or 

just used use Ampersand to concatenate: "Q " & QuarterOfYear

[kashahzad · Accepted solution]

 Hi @AntrikshSharma 

For some reasons your formula was not working but it gave me a hint. I just used switch function and it worked, so I added a a new column to the table with the switch formula mentioned below and it is now showing me what I wanted, but thanks a lot for taking the time out to look into my question. You deserve a kudos.

Quarters = SWITCH ('Calendar'[QuarterOfYear],1,"Q1",2,"Q2",3,"Q3",4,"Q4")