Community Spring Cleaning week is here! Join your fellow Maveryx in digging through your old posts and marking comments on them as solved. Learn more here!

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

Find answers, ask questions, and share expertise about Alteryx Designer Desktop and Intelligence Suite.
SOLVED

Date changing and formatting

Ej_1947
6 - Meteoroid

Hi everyone,

 

I am new to designer and need help with dates. I have a column with field strings: 'January-2016', 'February-2016' going all the way to 'September-2019' Please can anyone help me with directions on how to get this string to a MM-YYYY date format e.g 'January-2016' should appear as '01-2016' formatted as a date and not a string. I tried date parse, regex and formulas and I keep getting nulls. I need the dates to function chronologically in a tableau dashboard.

 

Thanks in advance!

3 REPLIES 3
NicholasM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Hey @Ej_1947 

 

I believe this can be accomplished with a series of tools. See attached workflow and photo. I took the route of changing the field to a Date datatype using the DateTime tool, this allows you to then change the date format with a formula tool.

 

Capture3.PNG

Ej_1947
6 - Meteoroid

Thank you @NicholasM  I've just tried this and it is giving me the output '01-2016', but as a string and not in alteryx date format. Or is this not possible to get it to the date format in alteryx. I want the data type of the output '01-2016' to be a date.

 

Ej_1947_0-1572855041876.png

 

 

ClaireTheNovice
5 - Atom

Hi Ej_1947

 

Did you get an answer to this query? I think I need something similar.

 

Thanks

Labels