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How to concatenate unique values?
- Anonymous4 years ago
Hi Rinat,
According to your description, I think the Dax function doest not suitable analyze multiple fields. Perhaps you can try to use Power query formulas to do this operation.
I create a custom column with M query functions to extract and analyze current row field values, concatenate 'nonblank' and distinct values with character ";":
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Combine", each Text.Combine(List.Distinct(List.Select(Record.ToList(_), each _ <> "")),";"))Full query:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSQcKxOtFKTkAWDENEnIEsIHIGY5CAC5DlAhF0VYqNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, Column3 = _t, Column4 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}, {"Column3", type text}, {"Column4", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Combine", each Text.Combine(List.Distinct(List.Select(Record.ToList(_), each _ <> "")),";")) in #"Added Custom"Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
DimaMD you are right. I need to learn more and I'm doing it.
I have no more than 4 Values in total and different combinations of filled-in and blank fields. In most cases, I have 3 values filled in but I don't want to hardcode this logic to the formula if possible. I have very little programming experience but maybe it's possible to read values in a cycle 4 times and add value to the result if the previous value doesn't equal the current. Just an idea...
HI Rinat try it
Result =
IF(
[Value1] = [Value2],[Value3],
IF(
[Value1] = BLANK() && [Value2] <> [Value3], COMBINEVALUES(";", [Value2],[Value3]),
IF([Value2] = BLANK() && [Value1] <> [Value3], COMBINEVALUES(";", [Value1],[Value3]),
IF([Value3] = BLANK() && [Value1] <> [Value2], COMBINEVALUES(";", [Value1],[Value2]),
IF([Value1]<> BLANK() && [Value2]<> BLANK()&& [Value3] <> BLANK()&& [Value1]<>[Value2], COMBINEVALUES(";", [Value1],[Value2]),
[Value3])
))))