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Premlatapandey9
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Create a column based on the text data in other columns.

Hello Everyone,

Greetings for the day!

 

I have the below data set 

Family NamePart NoDescriptionSupplier
Compute123456COMPUTESTORAGE-TE-GEN5.8-INTEL-104-LENOVO-48U-STANDARDWWWT
Netapp123457NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTFFFT
Compute123456COMPUTESTORAGE-TE-GEN5.8-INTEL-104-LENOVO-48U-STANDARDMGT
Netapp123457NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTFFFT
Compute123456NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTMGT

 

 and based on above i want to create a column name " Comment " like below

 

Family NamePart NoDescriptionSupplierComment
Compute123456COMPUTESTORAGE-TE-GEN5.8-INTEL-104-LENOVO-48U-STANDARDWWWTUnique Combo
Netapp123457NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTFFFTDupe Combo
Compute123456COMPUTESTORAGE-TE-GEN5.8-INTEL-104-LENOVO-48U-STANDARDMGTOnly Supplier is different
Netapp123457NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTFFFTDupe Combo
Compute123456NETAPP-STORAGE-GEN2.7-INTEL-103H-WWTMGTOnly Description is different

 

Can you please help me to write the DAX for this thank you in advance!

 @member ,  @dax 

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tamerj1
Super User
Super User

Hi @Premlatapandey9 
Based on what?

Hello @tamerj1  applologies i have updated the above ask can you please have a look now, earlier the first table did not get posted Thanks!

@Premlatapandey9 
Please refer to attached sample file with the proposed solution

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Comment = 
VAR IsDupe = COUNTROWS ( CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table', ALL ( 'Table'[Index] ) ) ) > 1
VAR FamilyPartTable = CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table', ALLEXCEPT ( 'Table', 'Table'[Family Name], 'Table'[Part No] ) )
VAR TableBefore = FILTER ( FamilyPartTable, 'Table'[Index] < EARLIER ( 'Table'[Index] ) )
VAR DescriptionsBefore = DISTINCT ( SELECTCOLUMNS ( TableBefore, "@Description", 'Table'[Description] ) )
VAR SuppliersBefore = DISTINCT ( SELECTCOLUMNS ( TableBefore, "@Supplier", 'Table'[Supplier] ) )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        TRUE ( ),
        IsDupe, "Dupe Combo",
        ISEMPTY ( TableBefore ), "Unique Combo",
        'Table'[Description] In DescriptionsBefore, "Only Supplier is different",
        'Table'[Supplier] In SuppliersBefore, "Only Description is different",
        "Both Description and Supplier are different"
    )

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