Date Formulas Break when region of user machine changes

[jeffgarlisch]

Hello PBI Team,

I am a DBA in the US for an international finance company, and part of my job is manufacturing and distributing PBI reports to all the different IT offices all over the world. 

I noticed recently though that when I am using measures/calc columns that reference date fields, they break when opened on a PC that doesn't have a English(US) regional setting, these date based calculations break because of the formatting. 


Is it possible to have the PBI default to the region from the originating PC?

[v-yuta-msft · Accepted solution]

@jeffgarlisch ,

I would suggest you to change the format of date column to text type when you save the report. When others open the report, they can click query editor-> right click on the date column-> then click "change type"-> Using locale to achieve the local format.

 

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