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DirectQuery Connection Showing Format Strings Instead of Numeric Values
Hello Power BI Community, We've encountered an issue when connecting to our semantic model using DirectQuery—most values in our dashboards are now being displayed as format strings rather than th...
Hi Jelle-Scheper ,
You can apply the FORMAT function as shown below to achieve the expected results, even when using DirectQuery mode. This approach has worked for me, please refer to the screenshot below for reference. Let me know if it doesn’t work on your end.
NetSalesFormatted =
FORMAT(SUM(Customers[ID]), "-€\ #,0")
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Thank you!!
That would result in an unsortable measure in tables as you would sort on a text data type. We've found our own solution now that does not involve such comprimises. Thanks!