Hi,
You can extract date components (day of month, day of week, month, year,...) from a parsed date, and set these new columns as features. And, as a target, you keep the "sales" column.
After the model is trained (and deploy in the Flow), you will need to create a new dataset on which you can apply the model. This dataset can have the dates of next year.
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I hope that helps,
Jeremy
Jeremy, Product Manager at Dataiku