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MichaelGEE
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Semicolons vs commas in measures

Hi, my Windows regional settings uses ";" as a list seperator and "," as a decimal seperator. I'm using PBI Desktop in English with the "Use localized DAX separators" setting on. Recently (could be after updating to Oct-21 but I'm not sure), every time I save a measure, the ";" are converted to "," and it's shown as an error while editing the measure. The measure works after saving with ";" but everytime I want to edit the measure, the "," are there again and I need to replace them with ";" in order to keep the measure working. I'd never had this problem before, all my measures were always using ";" without any problems.

 

Is there anyone else experiencing this? I found one thread with similar problem here but no solution was given. Thank you very much.

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Anonymous
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Hi @MichaelGEE ,

 

This issue has been reported internally(ICM 268135343), and we get feedback from PG said this issue will be fixed in November, please stay tuned.

 

 

Below is a similar thread which you could refer to:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DAX-code-seperation-sign-change-semicolon-to-comma-Dax-is-n...

Eyelyn9_0-1636448263748.png

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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Hi @MichaelGEE ,

 

This issue has been reported internally(ICM 268135343), and we get feedback from PG said this issue will be fixed in November, please stay tuned.

 

 

Below is a similar thread which you could refer to:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DAX-code-seperation-sign-change-semicolon-to-comma-Dax-is-n...

Eyelyn9_0-1636448263748.png

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

amitchandak
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@MichaelGEE , Other users have reported this.  Please check for any reported issue or log a new one - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues

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