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Jawed's avatar
Jawed
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8 years ago

Convert text to number

Hi everyone,   I am new to Power BI and this is my first attempt at uploading my budget and actual numbers. Because my budget is columnar, I needed to use the "Unpivot Column" option to sort out th...
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Zubair_Muhammad's avatar
Zubair_Muhammad
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8 years ago
Hi @ Jawed, This error might be because you chose to keep errors. Try removing errors and then change type of Budget Amount to Decimals
Jawed's avatar
Jawed
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8 years ago

Thank you Zubair_Muhammad. I deleted them and then tried it again with no luck. 

  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
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    8 years ago

    According to the data type symbol (123) in the column header, you changed the type to Whole Number instead of Fixed Decimal.

     

    Personally I'm not in favour of data type Fixed Decimal (which is the same as currency), because it has 4 decimals.

     

    I would prefer Decimal Number instead, and make sure that any currency amounts are properly rounded.

     

    • Jawed's avatar
      Jawed
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      8 years ago

      Hi MarcelBeug. I tried that option as well. Somehow it is not picking it. Is having zeros in the cells going to make the difference? When I am on the Query Editor, I can see the numbers but, when I "Close & Apply" and come out of it, the numbers simply disappear. I may be doing something wrong but dont seem to think of anything at this moment.

      • MarcelBeug's avatar
        MarcelBeug
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        8 years ago

        In general, when you have values in a column that do not comform to the column type, the values will be visible in the Query Editor, but not after loading the data.

         

        Another possibility would be that you need to transform the data type using Locale, e.g. if the text values have decimal points, but your culture has decimal commas.