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adityapedapudi
Advocate I
Advocate I

Unable to use string columns in any way in DirectQuery mode.

Hi guys,

 

I'm using direct query to get the data from an OLAP cube. The columns Dim_date, Fiscal_year, Fiscal_week, FY, FP, etc are not available in the DAX expression box when typing. This the error i get when i give the expression :

dim_month_1 = MONTH('time'[Dim_date])

The error:  (here the [Dim_date] column is a date column in string format)error msg.PNGAfter spending some time researching i was able to learn that i need to aggregate, so i used the following expression:

=SUM('Time'[FP])

As you can see the column 'FP' is just a value in string format, but it still shoes this error:error msg2.PNG

 

And when i try and convert it into a value by using the expression:

=VALUE(SUM('Time'[FP]))

This is the error: 

error msg3.PNGPlease help, i'm new so if i made a silly mistake, forgive me.

 

Thanks

 

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wilson_smyth
Post Patron
Post Patron

what is the format of the FP column in the cube?

if its a string  you may need to convert it to a number. Unsure of your system but StrToValue might help, or be a starting point.

I believe StrToValue is not part of DAX's functions and I don't have access to the cube, so there's no way of knowing the format through the backdoor or any way

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