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Format loss when unpivoting columns
I am working on a report where in the source file, I have a set of columns expressed in different format types (a few are percentages, some are currency, others are fixed decimal number). Because my...
No. Each column can only have one data type, or it can be a variant, where it is whatever, but that will always look like text to Power BI and is a mess.
Don't combine data types into a single column. It might be helpful to explain what you are doing, but putting units, dollars, percents, and text into a single column via Unpivot in Power BI is very likely not the right way to go.
In my report, I have a line chart showing trended metrics on a monthly basis. My hope was, the user could pick which metric they want to trend out from a slicer and if it's dollars per unit, it would show up as currency, if it's share, it would show as a percentage, etc. Maybe I'll explore a different way of showing that