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Otso
New Member
9 years ago

Power BI Publisher for Excel transforms values into text

I have several calculated columns (decimal-type) in PBI, which work well when I create PBI reports. When I connect to Excel using "Connect to Data" the numbers convert to text, and manipulating/ranki...
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MattAllington's avatar
MattAllington
Community Champion
9 years ago

Are you sure they turn to text?  Analyse in Excel doesn't support implicit measures - you must write explicit measures in Power BI first. Said another way, you can drag a column of numbers to the values section in Power BI, but you can't do it in Excel connected to Power BI

Otso's avatar
Otso
New Member
9 years ago

MattAllington, I have explicit measures built I use for the Values section, but for Rows section, I (try to) use calculated columns. I have about 400k rows that need to be ranked, but I'm unable to do that as the Pivot table treats the row values as text (99.89, 997, 99.6, etc.).

    • DieterH's avatar
      DieterH
      New Member
      9 years ago

      I have the same problem. Also if I transform explicitly the type via power query to Type.Int64 it will be handled in the data modell like text.

      Is there anysolution

      Thanks

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi Otso,

    What is your data source?  Would you mind sharing me sample data of your scenario?

    I make a test using my sample data, but I am not able to reproduce your issue. When I connect to my dataset that has calculated column(decimal-type) from Excel, I can successfully drag the calculated column to ROWS section. You can check the following screenshots to get more details.




    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang