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I have a table in Sql server that I cannot edit. It has several nvarchar type columns and columns named 2022-07 etc. These are of type float. I created a gallery in powerapps to which I manually add text labels (ThisItem.Key for example) Everything is fine until I get to the float type columns. Powerapps prompts me to then save the code as ThisItem.'2022-07' but at that point I get an error and in addition all the other gallery elements that were previously working properly disappear and I can only restore them by adding the gallery from scratch. As for the values in the 2022-07 column, they are, for example, 100, 121.97 and 0.

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timl 36,411 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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To clarify, was '2022-07' originally an nvarchar column that you subsequently changed to float? If so, have you refreshed the data source in Power Apps?

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No, in the table there are columns of type nvarchar - everything is fine with them - and of type float (2022-07). The column type was defined when the table was created and has not been changed since. On the other hand, I have already tried refreshing the data source, deleting and adding them again. Also if it will helps - these columns are set up as not null. I worked with PowerApss before and I didn't have such a problem - but I have never worked with float type column

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No, in the table there are columns of type nvarchar - everything is fine with them - and of type float (2022-07). The column type was defined when the table was created and has not been changed since. On the other hand, I have already tried refreshing the data source, deleting and adding them again. Also if it will helps - these columns are set up as not null. I worked with PowerApss before and I didn't have such a problem - but I have never worked with float type column

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timl 36,411 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Assuming you just want to display the value in the gallery, if you call the Text function, does that make a difference?

Text(ThisItem.'2022-07')

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Yes, I just want to display that value. Unfortunately Your solution doesn,t work, as soon as I type it in formula bar everything dissapear in my gallery

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Yes, I just want to display that value. Unfortunately Your solution doesn,t work, as soon as I type it in formula bar everything dissapear in my gallery

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In the settings of your app, is the 'formula-level error management' setting enabled? If not, could you try enabling it to see if it makes a difference?

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Yes, it has been enabled since the application was created

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I just checked the operation on another table, the float column values display normally but also there are no floating point numbers in the data. Only values such as 0 or 2

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Martyna1107 35 on at

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The problem was column names starting with numbers. I changed it to sth like Date:2023-07 and it works perfectly fine

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