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atin
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Advocate III

MdxScript(Model) (6, 48) Calculation error in measure 'Live_Files_ Billings'[Billings Live]: The fun

Hi everyone 

 

I have just had to refresh one of the visuals I created and getting this error message:

 

MdxScript(Model) (6, 48) Calculation error in measure 'Live_Files_ Billings'[Billings Live]: The function SUM cannot work with values of type String

 

Please can you advise on possible solutions

many thanks 

 

 

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v-kkf-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @atin ,

 

According to the error message, you are summing a column of text type in your measure formula. So please check the data type of the fields.

 

Best Regards,
Winniz

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atin
Advocate III
Advocate III

Many thanks @v-kkf-msft for your assistance.
I checked the data and was able to detect that the column which I had used to create the measure had some texts in it. I have about 208 queries in the file and saw when unpivoting the columns during the transform process, I had not selected all the columns
However It works now  - Happy days 😊

v-kkf-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @atin ,

 

According to the error message, you are summing a column of text type in your measure formula. So please check the data type of the fields.

 

Best Regards,
Winniz

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