Content in Tableau Community Forums /profile-content.jspa?filterID=contentstatus[published]&targetUser=22621 Recent content in Tableau Community Forums en Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30:53 GMT Jive Engage 8.0.5.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/) 2013-04-30T13:30:53Z en How to prevent a field data type from changing when refreshing TDEs https://community.tableau.com/thread/125720 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:28aeacfc-3710-4102-95da-7e2348902b8c] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>How can I fix a field to always be data type Numeric, when refreshing a data extract and more than the first ten rows of that field contain blanks (nulls?)&#160; The field is used in a custom calculation and I don;t want to have to manually change field types when imporint new data.&#160; I'm using Tableau v8</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:28aeacfc-3710-4102-95da-7e2348902b8c] --> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30:53 GMT tableaucommunity@tableau.com https://community.tableau.com/thread/125720 2013-04-30T13:30:53Z 6 years 2 months ago 3 0