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