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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Column Filtering containing value

Hi Guys,

 

Wondered if you could help on this one. I have a dataset with items which are sometimes tagged as Blocked. I want to filter my dataset down so I have items that may once have been tagged as Blocked...but to also retain the times they were not blocked. 

See below I want to find a way to filter the column to only retain the red section...

 

 

Can this be done?

  • Hi Anonymous 

    Please always show your sample data in text-tabular format in addition to (or instead of) the screen captures. A screen cap doesn't allow people to readily copy the data and run a quick test and thus decreases the likelihood of your question being answered. Just use 'Copy table' in Power BI and paste it here. Or, ideally, share the pbix (beware of confidential data).

    Place the following M code in a blank query to see the steps based on a simplified source table:

     

     

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQwUNJRMgRipVgdGNcIlWuMyjWBcY0NLQyNLZC1w0VAJjjl5Cdnp6agShjjkoCbaoTqIiNUFxmhusgIyUWxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [WorkItemId = _t, ChangedDate = _t, TagNames = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"WorkItemId", Int64.Type}, {"ChangedDate", Int64.Type}, {"TagNames", type text}}),
    
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.Contains(Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", (inner)=> inner[WorkItemId]=[WorkItemId])[TagNames], "Blocked"))
    in
        #"Filtered Rows"

     

     

    You can also create a new calculated table in DAX, although I would recommend the PQ route:

     

    NewTable = 
    FILTER( Table1, 
            CALCULATE(COUNT(Table1[TagNames]), Table1[TagNames] = "Blocked", ALLEXCEPT(Table1, Table1[WorkItemId])) > 0
    )

     

    Please mark the question solved when done and consider giving a thumbs up if posts are helpful.

    Contact me privately for support with any larger-scale BI needs, tutoring, etc.

    Cheers 

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    Community Champion

    Hi Anonymous 

    Please always show your sample data in text-tabular format in addition to (or instead of) the screen captures. A screen cap doesn't allow people to readily copy the data and run a quick test and thus decreases the likelihood of your question being answered. Just use 'Copy table' in Power BI and paste it here. Or, ideally, share the pbix (beware of confidential data).

    Place the following M code in a blank query to see the steps based on a simplified source table:

     

     

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQwUNJRMgRipVgdGNcIlWuMyjWBcY0NLQyNLZC1w0VAJjjl5Cdnp6agShjjkoCbaoTqIiNUFxmhusgIyUWxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [WorkItemId = _t, ChangedDate = _t, TagNames = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"WorkItemId", Int64.Type}, {"ChangedDate", Int64.Type}, {"TagNames", type text}}),
    
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.Contains(Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", (inner)=> inner[WorkItemId]=[WorkItemId])[TagNames], "Blocked"))
    in
        #"Filtered Rows"

     

     

    You can also create a new calculated table in DAX, although I would recommend the PQ route:

     

    NewTable = 
    FILTER( Table1, 
            CALCULATE(COUNT(Table1[TagNames]), Table1[TagNames] = "Blocked", ALLEXCEPT(Table1, Table1[WorkItemId])) > 0
    )

     

    Please mark the question solved when done and consider giving a thumbs up if posts are helpful.

    Contact me privately for support with any larger-scale BI needs, tutoring, etc.

    Cheers 

  • Anonymous , You can create a new column like this and filter blocked

     


    new column =
    var _cnt = countx(filter(Table, [workitemid] = earlier([workitemid]) && [Tagnames] ="Blocked"), [workitemid])+0
    return
    if(_cnt >0 , "Blocked", Blank())

  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    Community Champion

    Anonymous 

     

    NewTable2 =
    FILTER (
        Table1,
        CALCULATE (
            COUNT ( Table1[TagNames] ),
            SEARCH ( "Blocked", Table1[TagNames], 1, 0 ) > 0,
            ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[WorkItemId] )
        ) > 0
    )

     

     

    Please mark the question solved when done and consider giving a thumbs up if posts are helpful.

    Contact me privately for support with any larger-scale BI needs, tutoring, etc.

    Cheers 

     

     

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Thanks guys, both of these solutions work - appreciate your help. I also added 

    "blocked", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

     

    To the first response, just as I noticed I missed some with a capital B 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    AlB what would the current DAX need to be (referring to second part of your answer) if I wanted to include any time there was the word "blocked" (for example if someone used the tag 'blocked - data') and for it be case insensitive?