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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Unable to change Rounding

Hello Community,   Can someone please let me know why the 'Rounding' is greyed out. I would like to change the rounding to 0 decimal places but I'm unable to, see image.  
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  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    We should change the data type to Percentage.Type firstly. Then we can decimal places in Modeling.

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtEzVlWK1cFgxAIA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [percentage = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"percentage", Percentage.Type}})
in
    #"Changed Type"

jdbuchanan71's avatar
jdbuchanan71
Super User
7 years ago

Hello Anonymous 

It's because the data type for those columns is text so PowerQuery doesn't know you can round it.  If you change it to decimal number you will be able to round it.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Thanks for reaching out.

     

    I made the change, and it worked. However, I'm trying to round off so that I don't see any digits after the decimal.

     

    For example, I would like 4% instead of 4.00%. But each time I round I can't get rid of the 0's

     

    • jdbuchanan71's avatar
      jdbuchanan71
      Super User
      7 years ago

      I would just make that change in the model layer in PowerBI using formatting rather than in PowerQuery.

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        7 years ago

        jd,

         

        I will check out your suggestion, and let you know how I get on.

         

        Thanks