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How to change data types in FDI for bar charts

asmith223258
Rank 4 - Community Specialist
I’ve run into challenges replicating certain visuals from Power BI. For example many fields—such as “Contract Number”—are stored as text, preventing their use in bar charts. Is there a way to change data types within FDI?
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In Calculations you can CAST to a different data type.
Or you could create an aggregation…Count(Contract Number)0 -
You can convert to number using Data Prep, at the dataset level, if you are an author and if it's not a subject area.
See below option:
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