How to convert 2018Q2 to date format?

[agaidano]

I'm trying to convert a column with values listed like "2017Q3" to a date format.  Any ideas?  I'm trying to do YoY growth comparison and need a date column. 

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @agaidano,

Have you solved your problem?

If you have solved please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

If you still need help, you could try the formula below.

Baseon the formula from rajendran, you could create another column with the formula:

Column = DATE(LEFT('Test'[NewDate],4),MID('Test'[NewDate],5,2),RIGHT('Test'[NewDate],2))

Here is the output.

In addition, you could have a good reference of this similar thread which solved with M query.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

[agaidano]

Hi @v-piga-msft thank you for your replies!  I believe I am close here.  Only problem I am having is I am getting the error, "Cannot Convert Value " of type Text to type Integer".  Any Idea what I might be doing wrong here?  I have copied and pasted the formula's in exactly, substituting my correct column name, and I get this data type error.

Any thoughts?

Thank you very much. 

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @agaidano,

Could you share the screenshots about your formula and the error message, so that we can help further investigate on it?

Best Regards,

Cherry

[Anonymous]

Hi

Try this

NewDate = CONCATENATE(LEFT(Test[Column1],4) ,
                               SWITCH( RIGHT(Test[Column1],2),
                                         "Q1","0101",
                                         "Q2","0401",
                                         "Q3","0701",
                                         "Q4","1001"))

Thanks
Raj