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Correcting Wrong Data Type Selection in Dataverse Table Column
Microsoft Dataverse
Oct 25, 2022 12:00 AM

Correcting Wrong Data Type Selection in Dataverse Table Column

by HubSite 365 about Lisa Crosbie [MVP]

Evangelist at Barhead Solutions | Microsoft Business Applications MVP | Content Creator

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Unlock key steps to correct wrong data type selection in your Dataverse table with Microsoft Expert!

We've all done it - you are building your data table in Dataverse for your Model-Driven Power App or Dynamics 365 app and you've picked the wrong data type (e.g. text instead of date) for one of your table columns. You can't go back and change it - so here's the process to unpick and fix it.

In this Video

0:00 - Dataverse table column is text instead of date type

1:04 - Options for changing the data type of a text column

1:58 - Find dependencies and replace a text column to a date column

5:40 - Options for changing the data type of other columns in Dataverse

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