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What is meant by UnderlyingType in Dataviews.table.columns?

‎11-07-2018 06:04 AM

Could anyone help on this? 

 

What is meant by UnderlyingType in Dataviews.table.columns?

 

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v-viig
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‎11-08-2018 10:31 PM

It's a system field. We recommend not to use it.

 

Ignat Vilesov,

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‎11-12-2018 10:52 PM

You should use dataView.metadata.columns to identify a type. Each MetadataColumn has the type property that has boolean flags that indicate a type.

 

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v-viig
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‎11-08-2018 10:31 PM

It's a system field. We recommend not to use it.

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

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‎11-12-2018 01:04 AM

Okay. Thanks for your update.

 

Is it any possibility to identify the field datatype from custom visuals? Just we want to fetch/identify the datatype of the user selected fields. 

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‎11-12-2018 10:52 PM

You should use dataView.metadata.columns to identify a type. Each MetadataColumn has the type property that has boolean flags that indicate a type.

 

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