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I have a "description" column in PowerBI that I use within a PowerBI table. When I attempt to refresh the report, I continue to get an error about this particular table. After further checking, I see the error ties back to a column within this table; it has multiple data types in the Description column. The first character of the Description may start with a # or may start with text; afterall it is a free-form fillin description field. Since I am not using this column in a calculation, and I only want to display this information, how can I get around this issue?
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@Anonymous I think by default power query is changing the data type of this column to number, on change type step, change the data type to text and it will work.
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@AnonymousCan you try to create a Custom Column as following and then delete the original column and use the custom column for your report.
try Text.From([MixDataColumn]) otherwise "-999"
try is M's IFERROR equivalent.
I've tried every combination and still I am unsuccessful at using this statement. I am using the column name that contains the mixed data type.
Text.From([WARRANTY_CODE]) otherwise "-999"
It returns, "To use special characters in a column name, enclose the entire name in brackets.
Warranty Code is the column containing both text and #'s.
Any add'l help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
@Anonymouscan you please post the sample data here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sozwslmq8q4ksbv/RecurringCodes.xlsx?dl=0
Here is the file. The first column is the one that contains text and #'s.
Thanks.
@Anonymous I think by default power query is changing the data type of this column to number, on change type step, change the data type to text and it will work.
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