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Date Format

sharmilaj
7 - Meteor

Hi all,

 

I have my month and year in different columns. Need to combine the both and form date in MMM-YY format. 

MonthYear
12023

I need the output to be Jan-23. 

 

Kindly help with the Alteryx flow. 

Thanks in advance. 

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BRRLL99
11 - Bolide

use formula tool to combine both columns

in second formula use datetimeparse("%B-%Y)

DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@sharmilaj bunch of ways to do this but here's one - if your [Month] and [Year] columns are already strings then there's no need to wrap the fields in the ToString() function:

 

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