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mlilkas
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10 years ago
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Leading Zero

Hello,   I am trying to set up some store numbers in Power BI so we can view information by store specifically. When I enter the store numbers, PowerBI will list items by leading number instead of ...
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    asocorro
    10 years ago

    If your source data has leading zeros, then you need to solve this when you import the data (assuming you are not connecting directly to the data source), by making sure you format the column as text in the query editor.  Otherwise, you will need to create a calculated column that pads the store IDs with the correct number of leading zeros.

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asocorro
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10 years ago

If your source data has leading zeros, then you need to solve this when you import the data (assuming you are not connecting directly to the data source), by making sure you format the column as text in the query editor.  Otherwise, you will need to create a calculated column that pads the store IDs with the correct number of leading zeros.

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mlilkas
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10 years ago

Thanks Asocorro, I was able to pad the data. To add the leading numbers I used format(column,"000"). I did not have the "" before so it was not doing anything when I entered the zeros.