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Converting DateTime to Date in MDX

Tags: mdx, date, datetime, convert
Hi,

I have a calculated measures which is a converted to member with strToMember. This returns a dateTimr field in string format. I need to convert that into Date only (no Time). How can I do that for calculated measures in MDX? Are there any MDX date functions that can convert a string to a date?

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Zone: Database
Question Asked By: scrataz
Solution Provided By: PFrog
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Solution Grade: A
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Comment by scrataz
That was quick and easy. Thanks PFrog.
 
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Comment by scrataz
I found an even better solution - to use strongly typed StrToMember function in MDX (in case your calculated member is stored as a dateTime in OLAP)

.Member.Properties(propertyName, TYPED) instead of .Member.Properties(propertyName)

This situation is certainly preferable if we want to implement it in code (calculated measure is generated in code) and/or we provide an interface to the client to create custom Calculated Measures

Thx
 
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Comment by PFrog
nice solution, thanks for posting it
 
 
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