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jthomson
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Group by - counting rows

Hi,

 

If I'm grouping by some attribute in Power Query with an aggregation of row count, the default data type it automatically changes it to is a decimal - any way to get it to change to an integer automatically, seeing how I'm probably not going to be counting half a row any time soon?

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v-juanli-msft
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Community Support

Hi @jthomson 

After "Groupby", you can click on "Detect data type", then it would transform to "whole number".

 

Best Regards

Maggie

Yes, I know I can change it after the event, but I need to click that every time I do such a transformation, I'm more thinking as to whether it can be configured to do that automatically, given there's no good reason for it to not select whole number by default

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