I would like to load text fields Month and Year into QV in date format to more easily sort them in a chart.
My month field is in long form (January, February, etc) and the year is typical 2017, 2018.
Have been trying to implement the following code in my load script but am receiving no values when I pull my test metric into a straight table with project id.
date(date#([Estimated Completion Month] & ' ' &[Estimated Completion Year] , 'MMYYYY')) as TestMetric
Also tried
date(date#([Estimated Completion Month], 'MM)) as TestMonthMetric
date(date#([Estimated Completion Year] , 'YYYY')) as TestYearMetric
I feel like I am simply misunderstanding how the date function works but could use some insight.
The purpose of this task is to be able to sort a bar chart in correct date order. Was previously loading these fields as a concatenated value [Estimated Completion Month]&' '&[Estimated Completion Year] AS ECD but could not determine a way to order by year and then sort by month.. Will gladly take any tips on this issue as well.
Thank you!
