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campelliann
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Decimal Type Column behaving like text?

Hi there, 

I am not able to place the field "Horas" (Hours" From table "Ausências" in the values area of the matrix visual - the data type is set as decimal. If I create a measure (sum Horas) works. I tried to summarize the field as "sum", but still does not work. I can solve this with a measure but would like to understand what is going on.Picture1.png

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Very interesting problem. It is possible that you share this table from the PBI? 





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Hi mate, thank you for your reply. I cant sorry. But I copied the query to a new PBIX file and there it works. Perhaps something in the advanced options...

Do you reopen the file, refresh all data...only a idea?





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