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6 years ago
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Power Query Error - source data changed

Hello,   I had an excel file that was a source in a Power BI report I put together.   Well the pwbx file was open I opened the excel file to change some data.  Originally the column was a binary ...
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    6 years ago

    Anonymous  as suggested by Greg_Deckler remove the last step in your query. One of your steps should be "Changed Type1" which is effectively trying to convert your column into "type - number". It must be working fine before as you had 0 and 1 in that column. Now that you have text ("Within" etc), the data "type - number" is not valid which is giving you this error. Remove the "Changed type1" step and hopefully the error should go away

     

    Nishant

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6 years ago

Anonymous  as suggested by Greg_Deckler remove the last step in your query. One of your steps should be "Changed Type1" which is effectively trying to convert your column into "type - number". It must be working fine before as you had 0 and 1 in that column. Now that you have text ("Within" etc), the data "type - number" is not valid which is giving you this error. Remove the "Changed type1" step and hopefully the error should go away

 

Nishant