Power BI Dataflow with column type text having null value is rendered as blank in dataset

I have observed one thhing about Power BI dataflows. Entity having column as datatype Text while has null values in it. When i Get Data from that Dataflow in Power BI desktop that column value is re...

Data Modeling

v-yuta-msft

Community Support

6 years ago

Anonymous ,

Based on my test, if you don't input any value in the column the value will be null in number format column and woll be blank in text format column both in power bi desktop and dataflow.

The workaround is to input "null" manually in the text format column.

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

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