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I got some data from a very old ERP-System.
The date in the csv-file is this way:
* 80520 for May 8 2020
* 110520 for May 11 2020
So the string can have 5 or 6 characters.
I solved it myself using some string-operations in DAX but this is VERY complicated and I need to do this very often.
Is there an easier way?
I tried to add some lines of my code in a previos post but it was marked as spam and I don´t know why 😞
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Not sure why the DAX formula you created is complicated. See below which works fine for your sample data. You can just create this as a calculuated column.
Date =
VAR YearVal =
"20" & RIGHT ( 'Table'[ERP System], 2 )
VAR MonthVal =
LEFT ( RIGHT ( 'Table'[ERP System], 4 ), 2 )
VAR DateVal =
LEFT ( 'Table'[ERP System], LEN ( 'Table'[ERP System] ) - 4 )
RETURN
DATE ( YearVal, MonthVal, DateVal )
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WsjAwNTJQitWJVjI0hDBjAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Old = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Old", Int64.Type}}),
#"Converted Date" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Date_PQ", each Date.From(Number.ToText([Old], "0/00/00"), "en-GB"))
in
#"Converted Date"
Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
is this M? Unfortunately I am not familiar with M yet. But thank you!
Not sure why the DAX formula you created is complicated. See below which works fine for your sample data. You can just create this as a calculuated column.
Date =
VAR YearVal =
"20" & RIGHT ( 'Table'[ERP System], 2 )
VAR MonthVal =
LEFT ( RIGHT ( 'Table'[ERP System], 4 ), 2 )
VAR DateVal =
LEFT ( 'Table'[ERP System], LEN ( 'Table'[ERP System] ) - 4 )
RETURN
DATE ( YearVal, MonthVal, DateVal )
This looks MUCH easier than my solution. Thank you, that´s great!
Hi @cosmicyes
Did you try to use Power Query? And even with DAX why do you have to do it so often?
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