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Workspace Apptio
Categories Apptio Costing
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 11, 2025

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Resolve "BoxedStringOffset" vs "Long" label type errors

Costing stores label type data as either BoxedStringOffset or Long data types. Whether one or the other is used seems to depend on whether a formula was used to generate the label, and possibly which formula. A label field uploaded from an excel file appears as data type Long. Applying a formula like this (=if($_!="", $_, Vendor ID Helper)) in an override to an existing label generates a label of type BoxedStringOffset, while a similar formula (=if($_!="", $_, Vendor ID Helper)&"") generates a Long label. One data type should be used consistently throughout the product, or errors related to differing data types should be automatically resolved.

There is no clear path for end users to resolve this error currently as we can't specify the data type generated by a formula. It's unclear if this error in Studio reflects an actual problem, since despite the error appearing, formulas comparing mismatched label types appear to work correctly.

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