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I am downloading custom files from Salesforce that have time stamped collection periods.  It downloads in Day/time format down to the minutes.  I re-format in Power Pivot, but I still get a lot of data that comes out as blanks which tells me the formatting isn't identifying with each other.  I can't seem to find what I  am doing wrong since I am formatting the date fields in the date table and Salesforce the same.  If I form a pivot table with just the data, outside of power pivot, it doesn't have a issue.  I have tried forming my own date table and also using the one available in excel 2016.  

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  

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Hi Paul,

When you say you reformat in Power Pivot, what are you doing to reformat exactly?

Do you have a sample of the dates that are misbehaving that you can share. We only need a column of dates that includes some that get returned as blanks. If you can share a sample Excel file where you've loaded the dates into Power Pivot and they return blanks, then we can troubleshoot.

I suspect the dates are in the source as mm/dd/yyyy and your system is dd/mm/yyyy or vice versa, so please also tell us what your region settings are for dates and that of the SQL source.

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I would be glad to share both my excel file with power pivot and/or the separate individual files.  Please let me know an email address to send it too. 

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Hi Paul,

You can attach it here. Click the 'Attachment' button at the bottom of the reply window > choose your file > click the yellow 'Start Upload' button.

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I realize that when I get comfortable with Power Query I will merge several of the year over year collection documents, but for now just trying to resolve the date issue.  

I am including my Dashboard workbook that has all the documents in power pivot.

Also, two stand alone workbooks, 2017 collections and the date table I created.  

 

Thanks and I look forward to seeing my errors.  

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Hi Paul,

Nothing attached. You need to click the yellow 'start upload' button to complete the upload process.

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Okay, sorry, trying again.  I am in the US by the way.  It seems my files are too large, can I email them?

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Sure, or pop on Dropbox. Whichever is easier.

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