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Gauge Data Type Format
Anonymous wrote:From the Modeling tab, change the Data Type to Percentage.
This is the best solution.
This will not impact if same measure is getting used other places and other places I don't want to display in %?
It will be a % everywhere but why would you want to show decimals to begin with?
Displaying 0.4 is a lot less intuitive than simply showing 40 % to end-users.
If this is really important make 2 measures calculating the same thing and set one to a % and keep the other one as a decimal.
Anonymous wrote:It will be a % everywhere but why would you want to show decimals to begin with?
Displaying 0.4 is a lot less intuitive than simply showing 40 % to end-users.
If this is really important make 2 measures calculating the same thing and set one to a % and keep the other one as a decimal.
So in this case last is the right ans: Create a measure that adds the % symbol to the values
Correct?
no, just create the same measure twice and change the datatype of one measure.
here is the difference if you change data type of a field and if you simply format the field: