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Anonymous
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Dataflows - Type Cast issues

Hi All,

I am trying to move my exsiting reports which are based on PowerBi desktop(datasets) to Power BI Dataflows.

For doing this, I am copying my existing M code to Dataflow - Blank Query. I was able to successfuly create the Dataflow, but when I am trying to refresh the Dataflow, I am receving failure refresh alert with two errors(two different dataflows) mentioned as "We couldn't parse the input provided as a Date value" and "We couldn't convert to Number". In the first dataflow, I am trying to convert a string field(from the datasource) to Date field in Power Query and in second dataflow, I am trying to convert a string field(from the datasource) to decimal field in Power Query. I had the same transformation working perfectly fine in PowerBI desktop. But the same transformations are throwing errors in Dataflows.

Need your inputs to solve these issues as I am not able to move forward.

 

Thanks in advance.

Vani

 

 

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v-deddai1-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I can't reproduce your issue. Since you have a Pro account it is free. Go to https://support.powerbi.com. Scroll down and click "CREATE SUPPORT TICKET".

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

Anonymous
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vanessafvg
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have you double checked the data? does it tell you what row the error is on? also when you pull into power query do you process it into the visual pane succesfully with the same data




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