Forum Discussion

Rinat's avatar
Rinat
Icon for Helper I rankHelper I
4 years ago
Solved

How to concatenate unique values?

Hello everyone. Can someone please help me to get the DAX formula to create DAX formula to create a custom column which contains concatenated values from other columns with "; " as the delimiter. I ...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 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