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Hoping this will be easy to answer.
I have a table which contains student results. Because of the different types of result that exist (9 to 1, and A to E), the data type has to be a string.
I have filtered my table to only show those grades that are 9 to 1, but as the data has to be live, I cannot change the column data type.
I need to create a measure that gets the sum of all of the grades for a given student, so need to convert the string values to integer values using DAX. Can this be done?
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Can you try the following ? :
Total Grades =
SUMX(
FILTER(YourTableName, ISNUMBER(VALUE(YourGradeColumn))),
IF(
ISERROR(VALUE(YourGradeColumn)),
0,
VALUE(YourGradeColumn)
)
)
HI @Anonymous,
You can add a filter in your table to exclude the A to E text string, then you can use value function to convert these to numeric before aggregating these values.
formula =
SUMX (
ADDCOLUMNS (
FILTER (
ALLSELECTED ( Table1 ),
NOT ( [Results] IN { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" } )
),
"Score", VALUE ( Table1[Results] )
),
[Score]
)
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Can you try the following ? :
Total Grades =
SUMX(
FILTER(YourTableName, ISNUMBER(VALUE(YourGradeColumn))),
IF(
ISERROR(VALUE(YourGradeColumn)),
0,
VALUE(YourGradeColumn)
)
)
Hello @Anonymous
Use FORMAT DAX function to change the datatype of that particular column in your calculations.
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