# Assigning Table Error

**URL:** https://datashield.discourse.group/t/assigning-table-error/422
**Category:** Developer support
**Created:** [16 July 2021 15:38 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/assigning-table-error/422 "2021-07-16T15:38:10Z")
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### Author: ![sbellamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sbellamy](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/sbellamy)
#### Post date: [16 July 2021 15:38 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/assigning-table-error/422/1 "2021-07-16T15:38:10Z")

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My datashield login was working fine until I changed some of the variable types from text to decimal in the opal server and now I’m getting the error below

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### Author: ![yannick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/datashield.discourse.group/yannick/32/19_2.png) [@yannick](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/yannick)
#### Post date: [19 July 2021 08:04 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/assigning-table-error/422/2 "2021-07-19T08:04:46Z")

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Hi,

How have you “changed some of the variable types from text to decimal”? If it is a view, have you verified that all these text values can convert to decimals? (by exporting the table to a CSV file or by checking the summary of each modified variable)

Regards  
Yannick

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### Author: ![sbellamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sbellamy](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/sbellamy)
#### Post date: [21 July 2021 15:48 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/assigning-table-error/422/3 "2021-07-21T15:48:45Z")

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Hi,

Yes! I was able to correctly configure datashield for my project. For this assignment issue I solved it using the opal table save function.