Power BI convert eight digit yyyymmdd to date using DAX

Question

I'm trying to convert eight digit yyyymmdd to date format with DAX function.

column = DATE(LEFT(TABLE[COLUMN],4),MID(TABLE[COLUMN],5,2),RIGHT(TABLE[COLUMN],2))

However, I've got an error because of the original column has some records with "00000000", so how can I make a default value with IF statement or are there any better solutions?

Best regards 

Answer 1

• Go through "iferror" function IFERROR(value, value_if_error) for more information please visit the mentioned link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634765.aspx

column = IFERROR( DATE(LEFT(TABLE[COLUMN],4),MID(TABLE[COLUMN],5,2),RIGHT(TABLE[COLUMN],2)), DATE(yyyy,mm,dd))

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