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Dax Calculated Column

Does anyone know what symbol this is? 

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I'm trying to do a new column in a summary table and it won't let me due to circular dependency, however, this column exists already from the previous BA so I'm just trying to understand how they got this column in the first place.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

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@Anonymous Ah, they are both calculated columns, the first one is numeric, the second is non-numeric.



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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , Please check meaning of all icons here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-the-report-editor-take-a-tour

 

 

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@Anonymous , circular dependencies is because if you refer the column that has already been used in this calculation

 

Refer this if this can help : https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/avoiding-circular-dependency-errors-in-dax/

 

or share the set of formula's to have a look

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@Anonymous Calculated column



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@Greg_Deckler  is this not a calculated column?

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@Anonymous Ah, they are both calculated columns, the first one is numeric, the second is non-numeric.



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@Anonymous - No, not exactly sure what that is.



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