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Text field Reformat
I have a column of numbers with a maximum length of 6 characters but with smaller lengths as well as in the following:
123456
782
5678
I want to reformat these as text but with a high order 0 fill where the field is less than 6 characters long. The result would then look like:
123456
000782
005678
I have been using a Dax formula as follows:
EmpID as text = format(BLASTSRESPONSE[EmpID],"000000") but not getting the required result.
2 Replies
The formula is right if the numbers are in numeric format. So to make sure it is numeric, we can add the function VALUE as follows:
EmpID as text = format(VALUE(BLASTSRESPONSE[EmpID]),"000000")
and make sure the formula is in a calculated column, not a measure
