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5 years ago
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Expression.Error: We cannot convert the value null to type Number. mysteriously appeared

I'm working in an ERP reporting project and I have relatively complex PBI and PQ set with dozens of tables and processing steps.   Everything were fine until yesterday when I started to get error E...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    OK, I finally managed to solve this issue. Error message was in the end misleading.

     

    The error "Expression.Error: We cannot convert the value null to type Number" happened already in earlier steps. For some reason it got expanded to all the columns at the later steps.

     

    The root cause was unexpected values in the code list merged in earlier steps.

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

OK, I finally managed to solve this issue. Error message was in the end misleading.

 

The error "Expression.Error: We cannot convert the value null to type Number" happened already in earlier steps. For some reason it got expanded to all the columns at the later steps.

 

The root cause was unexpected values in the code list merged in earlier steps.

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3 years ago

Hi,

 

Please validate if you have any measure with null values in your model.  If yes, try to replace the null per 0 or filter it out.

 

It can be a possible solution to this error.

 

Regards,