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Anonymous
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Type change Error

Hi,

 

When i tried to change the type of weight coloum to number, it become error.

i checked that there is nothing apart from number in the coloum..! Not sure what's wrong.. Please Help.!

 

Thanks, 

change type.PNGtype change.PNG

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Hi @Anonymous 

You may try to change the 'Locale for import' as below.Here is the blog for your reference.

1.png

Regards,

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
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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d_gosbell
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If you click on one of the "Error" values it will show you the full error message. That should give you more information on what is going wrong (maybe there are trailing spaces or something like that interfering with the type conversion). If not post the error message back to this thread.

Anonymous
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Hi,

this is the message..

error detail.PNG

Hi @Anonymous 

You may try to change the 'Locale for import' as below.Here is the blog for your reference.

1.png

Regards,

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

Maybe you have some trailing whitespace. Try trimming the column before changing it's type

 

201905 trim.png

Anonymous
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Hi,

this is the message..

error detail.PNG

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