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Online Power BI report has different data format than desktop
I've developed a report with the Desktop app where I've set some data formats / visualsations etc When I publish the report online, some of the fields have different data format than those in the De...
Verify if your database (Excel) the column of date is type date or type text. My issue was because the column were text.
LeonardCs - could you please advise what is the reason for this difference between online version and desktop version and if there is a way of fixing this for the online version ?
Our clients can't use the desktop version, so we're obliged to use the online one on our meetings, which is not formatted properly. ..
- LeonardCs
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Hi Boris, I was the same issue few months ago. I was using a query to export datas from SQL Server and realized that my issue was with the format inside database.
The Power BI Dasktop could fix it automatic, but the Power BI online couldn't.
What type of database are you using? SQL Server? Exel?