Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Join the Fabric FabCon Global Hackathon—running virtually through Nov 3. Open to all skill levels. $10,000 in prizes! Register now.

Reply
bryanschmidt
Regular Visitor

expressions that yield variant data-typ cannot be used to define calculated columns

I googled the error and it says I’m not using the same data types in my fields.  That’s not true as all are decimal, so unsure how to fix this.  How can I fix my data or my formula?

 

 

 

bryanschmidt_0-1620663269776.png

 

bryanschmidt_1-1620663269779.png

 

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
HotChilli
Super User
Super User

boolean is a true or false.  The part I referred to returns true or false.  [FICA Exempt] is a decimal.  So the IF statement returns true or false sometimes and decimal sometimes.  That's why it's complaining.

You need to rewrite the IF statement so it only returns values of the same type.

View solution in original post

3 REPLIES 3
HotChilli
Super User
Super User

boolean is a true or false.  The part I referred to returns true or false.  [FICA Exempt] is a decimal.  So the IF statement returns true or false sometimes and decimal sometimes.  That's why it's complaining.

You need to rewrite the IF statement so it only returns values of the same type.

HotChilli
Super User
Super User

one of the paths returns a boolean,  [FICA...] = [Payment]

sorry.  what does that mean.  How do I fix?

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
September Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - September 2025

Check out the September 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

FabCon Atlanta 2026 carousel

FabCon Atlanta 2026

Join us at FabCon Atlanta, March 16-20, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.

Top Solution Authors
Top Kudoed Authors