Unable to change Rounding

[Anonymous]

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.

[v-frfei-msft · Accepted solution]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Anonymous]

Hi JD,

I tried your suggestion, but unfortunately, the format is Greyed out 'not available'

Can you think of any reason why that is?

Unfortunately, for some reason I'm unable to show you a photo / screenshot - the uploading of photos here in Desktop Forum is not available.

[jdbuchanan71]

Hi @Anonymous 

You do still need to change the datatype in PowerQuery to decimal number.  Then when it is in the model you do the formatting to remove the extra digits on the %.  What does the Date Type show in PowerBI desktop?

[Anonymous]

jd,

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

Thanks