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tenfingers
Advocate II
5 years ago
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Strange error message with calculation item

Hi all, I just started getting this error message with a calculation item. Ive never seen it before and cant think of anything that has changed in the model that would affect this. I couldnt find ...
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    tenfingers
    5 years ago

    I ended up discovering the cause of this and so thought I would post it in case someone else comes across this error.
    The calculation item in the error referenced a measure which had stopped working because a column data type had changed. Seems simple but there were quite a few measures in the calculation item and it took a while to find the broken one. Also the error message seemed to me to point to a different issue. Not sure how it was working for me and not another user when one of the measures referenced was broken and a column data type was changed.
    Cheers

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tenfingers
Advocate II
5 years ago

I ended up discovering the cause of this and so thought I would post it in case someone else comes across this error.
The calculation item in the error referenced a measure which had stopped working because a column data type had changed. Seems simple but there were quite a few measures in the calculation item and it took a while to find the broken one. Also the error message seemed to me to point to a different issue. Not sure how it was working for me and not another user when one of the measures referenced was broken and a column data type was changed.
Cheers