Power BI - Data Preparation Workflow
Steps in preparing Power BI
- Click on "Get Data", select your source data.
- Click on "Edit Queries".
- If there are individual date columns (Year, Month and Day):
- Then click on "Add Column", "Add Custom Column".
- Name the column as "TempDate".
- Put in the custom column formula.
- Then click on "OK".
- Select the generated column, and click on "Date", "Parse".
- A new "ParseDate" column will be generated.
- Check on the measure columns, ensure that they are changed to "Decimal Number" as the column type.