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Challenge #21: Date Reformatting

TeePee
8 - Asteroid

My solution

ddiesel
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

My solution:

JacobR77
8 - Asteroid
 
JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Challenge Completed

Ozzy_Campos
8 - Asteroid

Went in circles for a while and probably used too many tools to get this one done, but good learning experience 

KOBoyle
11 - Bolide

Solution attached. Took the approach of using a record id and the DateTimeFormat function to derive the Month field.

-Ken

Elena_Caric
8 - Asteroid

That one took longer than necessary, I was resolved not to type in the months.... but on the end I did!  

kcgreen
8 - Asteroid

I have limited experience working with the Multi-Row Formula,  This was a good opportunity to explore it.

 

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mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Nice and simple. I think I may have approached this in a slightly different manner due to the fact that I don't like large nested formulae. 

 

 

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I used Regex to tokenise the Year value into a separate column then used a multi-row formula to fill in the blanks for the Month and Year columns (numerically).
I then used the date parser to convert these fields accordingly.

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Bulien

PiotrZawieja
6 - Meteoroid

Probably a bit over-complicated flow (+ additional mapping file, is it cheating?) but without super long conditional statement at least.

 

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