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aplasschaert
9 years agoRegular Visitor
CSV data does not recognize column as numbers when contains negative numbers
When connecting to a CSV (generated with powershell) a column with numbers is recognized by Power BI web as numbers. Untill the column contains negative numbers then the column is recognized as stri...
Anonymous
9 years agoNot applicable
Have you actually explicitly set the column to a number datatype in the query editor before loading, or are you just allowing Power BI to auto-detect data types?
j_bujnowski
9 years agoRegular Visitor
Power BI Service automaticaly recognized data types.
I'm using PowerBI Service (Web) to create auto updated Dashboard. I am using CSV's on the Onedrive.
When CSV is changed datasets/reports/dashboards are automatically refreshed.
In case Power BI Desktop everything works correctly with the same data.