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Nurzh
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3 years ago
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Find the text from string and remove remain part

Hi all, 

I would like to create a new column in a table that will show me number of Master Document for Project Copies. 

Example: 

Table "Document"

Document NumberDocument Category
61-2300-P-5090Master Document 
61-2300-P-5090-07812Project Working Copy 
61-2300-P-5090-05908PProject Working Copy 
61-2300-P-5090-05908T1Project Working Copy 
61-2300-P-5090-05908TProject Working Copy 
61-2300-P-5090-07812-21Project Working Copy 

 

Desired New Column that will identify us the Number of Master Document of this copies: 

Document NumberDocument CategoryNew column (Master Documents)
61-2300-P-5090Master Document 61-2300-P-5090
61-2300-P-5090-07812Project Working Copy 61-2300-P-5090
61-2300-P-5090-05908PProject Working Copy 61-2300-P-5090
61-2300-P-5090-05908T1Project Working Copy 61-2300-P-5090
61-2300-P-5090-05908TProject Working Copy 61-2300-P-5090
61-2300-P-5090-07812-21Project Working Copy 61-2300-P-5090

 

One more thing is the lenght of Master Documents can be different and we need to check it by Category. 

 

I tried this code, but it does not work correctly: 

 

document master =
VAR CurrentCategory = Document[DocumentSourceCategory]
VAR CurrentNumber = Document[DocumentNumber]
VAR IsMasterDocument = CurrentCategory = "Master Document"
VAR MasterNumber =
    IF(
        IsMasterDocument,
        CurrentNumber,
        LEFT(CurrentNumber, IFERROR(FIND("-", CurrentNumber) - 1, LEN(CurrentNumber))  
        )
    )
RETURN
    MasterNumber
 
 
Thank you for any help! 

5 Replies

  • barritown's avatar
    barritown
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    3 years ago

    Hi Nurzh,

    Please try this calculated column versus your data:

    And in plain text for convenience:

     

    Document Master = 
VAR CurrentNumber = [Document Number]
RETURN MINX (
        FILTER (
            ADDCOLUMNS (    
                FILTER ( ALL ( Document ), Document[Document Category] = "Master Document" ),
                "Match",
                VAR CurrentMaster = [Document Number]
                RETURN CONTAINSSTRING ( CurrentNumber, CurrentMaster ) ),
            [Match] = TRUE () ), 
        [Document Number] )

     

    Best Regards,

    Alexander

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  • Nurzh's avatar
    Nurzh
    Frequent Visitor
    3 years ago

    Hi barritown , 

    Thank you for your solution,

    it really works, but I have 2.8 million rows in my table, and now almost 6-7 hours I am waiting for the result, it just stuck on "Working on it"...

    Is there any other  ways to realise it, maybe in Power query? 

     

    • barritown's avatar
      barritown
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      3 years ago

      Hi Nurzh,

      I knew my solution is greedy in terms of resources, but 6-7 hours - wow.

      I will think how to opimize my [DAX] solution - not sure that I will be able to turn hours into minutes, but I'll try. Before that, could you please clarify how many "master" entries you have among those 2.8 million rows?

      As for the Power Query solution, maybe it is worth duplicating this post in the "Power Query" section of this forum - I guess Power Query gurus live there. 🙂

      Best Regards,

      Alexander

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      • Nurzh's avatar
        Nurzh
        Frequent Visitor
        3 years ago

        Hi barritown , 

        There is approximately 2.7 million  of them "Master Documents". 

        Sure I will try to duplicate post in Power Query section, thank you, hope we can find the best solution 🙂