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117325
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7 years ago
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Data Format Issue when connecting Smartsheet with Power BI

Our team is working on a dashboard with data directly connected to Smartsheet Data. We have correct data formats on the Smartsheet data source (i.e. whole number with no decimal point, $ for currency...
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    v-juanli-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi 117325 

    You could go to Edit queries, create a conditional column

    Then change its type to "Number"(whole number or decimal number as you like)

    Apply &close, go to report view, you could create a measure as i provide before to show the currency format.

    Measure 2 = FORMAT( MAX('Sheet2$'[spend]), "Currency")

    You could download my pbix to see more details.

     

    Best Regards

    Maggie

     

    Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
7 years ago

Hi 117325 

A workaround is to create measures using "FORMAT" function to change it to your expected format.

measure = FORMAT(MAX('Sheet2$'[ticket]), "General Number")

Measure 2 = FORMAT( MAX('Sheet2$'[spend]), "Currency")

 

But in this way, "format" function can only be used in measure and the measures are of Text type.

So the measures may not be used for calculation, it can only be useful for displaying.

 

Best Regards

Maggie

 

Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
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117325
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Thanks for the solution. Maggie. I was able to pull the format for the whole number. However, there is an issue with the currency format as the current cost column is in a text value with mixed currency value and text with "TBD". Any way we can change the existing text value column in currency format ($) - only to the currency value cells. 

 

 

 

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    117325
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    Adding screenshot of the cost column with the mixed values

     

    • v-juanli-msft's avatar
      v-juanli-msft
      Community Support
      7 years ago

      Hi 117325 

      You could go to Edit queries, create a conditional column

      Then change its type to "Number"(whole number or decimal number as you like)

      Apply &close, go to report view, you could create a measure as i provide before to show the currency format.

      Measure 2 = FORMAT( MAX('Sheet2$'[spend]), "Currency")

      You could download my pbix to see more details.

       

      Best Regards

      Maggie

       

      Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
      If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

    • v-juanli-msft's avatar
      v-juanli-msft
      Community Support
      7 years ago

      Hi 117325 

      Is this problem sloved?

      If not, please let me know.

       

      Best Regards

      Maggie

       

      Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
      If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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        117325
        Frequent Visitor
        7 years ago

        Yes, the solution worked. Thanks a lot!