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mraka9
Helper III
Helper III

Textual Search

I'm trying to do a simple thing, but it seems to be extremely complicated. I have a table and I would like to filter items based on a column containing text. I need a textual filter:

  1. to display all items that contain a specific word
  2. to display either one word or another (or)
  3. to exclude words that I specify.

I need these combinations of filters to perform precise searches, considering that there are longer textual descriptions. I need to incorporate this into a report so that I can manually enter words into each of the mentioned filters as needed. Thank you in advance!

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

your "simple thing"  is far beyond the capabilities of Power BI.

 

If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/?forum=2d80fd4a-16cb-4189-896b-e0dac5e08b41

Thank you!
Later I saw the request so I voted 🙂
Kind regards,

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