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Reimer
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Helper II

Transforming cities into provinces

Hi all,

 

Can somebody help me please. I am a starter at Power BI and I am looking for a way to transform Dutch cities into Dutch provinces.

 

Do I have to add a column to the excell file or is it possible to do this automaticly within Power BI

 

Regards

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V-pazhen-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@Reimer 

You cannot change Cities to Provinces, because Power Bi is not that kind of automate software to read your city and assign it to a province. You need manually enter the Province column and set it as Province data type.

 

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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V-pazhen-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@Reimer 

You cannot change Cities to Provinces, because Power Bi is not that kind of automate software to read your city and assign it to a province. You need manually enter the Province column and set it as Province data type.

 

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
 

DataVitalizer
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Solution Sage

Hi @Reimer 

You can change the data type within powerbi

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A kudos would be appreciated  🙂 

 

 

nandukrishnavs
Super User
Super User

@Reimer 

 

Power BI can't convert the city to provinces automatically. You have to add another column to mention the provinces.

Then you can set the data category as state or provinces.

 

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Regards,
Nandu Krishna

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