Filtering to columns that contain a certain string, & only on and after a given date

[Anonymous]

Hi community,

I was given help months ago to come up with a script; it's been working wonderfully.  I now need to expand it.  This is how it looks currently:

CALCULATETABLE (

    ADDCOLUMNS (

        SUMMARIZE ( 'CM360', 'CM360'[Date], 'CM360'[Placement ID] ),

        "Cost-per-day",

            CALCULATE( SUM(('CM360'[impressions])) / 1000) * 4

    ),

    'CM360'[site_cm360] = "Programmatic Ads"   

)

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You can see we've created a calculated table where we've taken the [Date] and [Placement ID] columns from an existing table, 'CM360'.  We've then created another column, "Cost-per-day", calculated by taking [impressions], dividing that by 1000, then multiplying by 4 dollars. Only where the column, 'CM360'[site_cm360], contains "Programmatic Ads".

I would now like to expand that script to something like this:

    CALCULATETABLE (

    ADDCOLUMNS (

       FILTER ( 'CM360', (CONTAINSSTRING('CM360' ['Placement'], “banner”)), 'CM360'[Date] >= 01/09/2022 ),

        SUMMARIZE ( 'CM360', 'CM360'[Date], 'CM360'[Placement ID] ),

        "Cost-per-day",

            CALCULATE( SUM(('CM360'[impressions])) / 1000) * 5.00        

    ),

    'CM360'[site_cm360] = "Programmatic Ads" OR “iAgency”

)

I wish to filter what we were doing before to rows where 'CM360' ['Placement'] column contains the string "banner".

And only where those rows have the date on or after September 1st 2022.

Additionally, in that last line, I wish to expand it so it now looks for those two different values in the column,   'CM360'[site_cm360]

Please can you look at my expanded script and help me understand how you would write it because I don't think this is how it should be written in DAX.

thank-you  🙂

[Anonymous]

thanks again @FreemanZ   I was able to take your code, modify and expand on it, then incorportate it into my larger script.  It works now, and I'm very grateful for all the help 🙂

[Anonymous]

thank-you @FreemanZ 

I inserted your block of code into my script:

error message

PowerBI gives an error message, "Cannot find 'Table' "  "Parameter is not the correct type".  This is my full script:

I've tried various edits, including adding more parenthesis, but I just can't get Power BI to accept & execute this script.  Any suggestions would be much appreciated 🙂

Pablo

[FreemanZ · Accepted solution]

hi @Anonymous 

try like:

Table =

VAR _table =

CALCULATETABLE ( 

    'CM360', 

    CONTAINSSTRING('CM360' ['Placement'], “banner”), 

    'CM360'[Date] >= DATE(2022, 9, 1) 

)

RETURN

CALCULATETABLE (

    ADDCOLUMNS (

         SUMMARIZE ( 

              _table, 

             'CM360'[Date], 

             'CM360'[Placement ID] 

         ),

        "Cost-per-day",

        CALCULATE( SUM('CM360'[impressions]) / 1000) * 5.00        

     ),

    'CM360'[site_cm360]  IN {"Programmatic Ads", "iAgency"}

)