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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Variance Calculation Not Working (Error thinks there is text)

Good morning

 

Another newbie here...

 

I've started building some financial reporting dashboards in Power BI and want to show the actual vs forecast result for a given month, but when I insert a measure to do this (CYActvsForecast= [CYTotal] - [FcastTotal]), the visual won't display as it thinks there are text values in there somewhere. 

 

As you can see fromt the screenshot below all the values in CYTotal and FcastTotal are numerical, so I don't know what is causing this error! Has anyone seen anything like it before or have any idea how I would go about troubleshooting this?

Many thanks in advance!

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  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    6 years ago

    Anonymous , You are trying to use sum on a text datatype. Please change the data type and try . Or change in power query

     

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  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Anonymous , You are trying to use sum on a text datatype. Please change the data type and try . Or change in power query

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      Thanks for getting back to me. I forgot to mention that both fields used in the variance calculation are measures - the format section does say it is text but all options are greyed out so I can't change anything...

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        OK - I've got this working by adding value () around my measures used in the variance calculation after searching on why measures are formatted as text/how to change them.

         

        I couldn't find a definitive answer on why this was happening but it's solved now so thank you.