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ary_szpic
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Calculated coumn shows a sigma symbol with RED background in the report view

Hello everyone,

Sometimes, when I make calculated columns, a Sigma with RED background appears instead of the normal, white one (see picture below).

What does it mean? I didn't find anything seatching in the forum or googling.

 

Someties it appears in columns of a lot of calculations, sometimes in the simplest one like Column3 = Column2.

This red symbol only appears in the report view. It shows the normal calculated column symbol in the table view.

 

Thanks in advance!

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v-lili6-msft
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hi  @ary_szpic 

Not sure why there is RED background in the field, if you uninstall and reinstall power bi desktop and try it again.

And it is a great help that you could share your sample pbix file for us to have a test on our side.

 

Regards,

Lin

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amitchandak
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@amitchandak I have seen that page, it doesn't say what the sigma with red background is...

@ary_szpic can yo paste the dax expression for these calculated columns?



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@ary_szpic you are correct didn't see this before. Can you share the expression where you have this red background, I want to see if there is anything in those calculations, just copy-paste the dax expression of those two red background columns.



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parry2k
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@ary_szpic it is to represent that it is a calculated column by using DAX, column is not coming directly from your data source. 

 



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Normal DAX calculated column symbol has a white background, not red..

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