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Hi all,
I am running a skill matrix on my team and in few questions we are asking them to give themself a score on few categories. For instance in Excecel they can select between 5 options: Novice, Understand basics, Capable, Advance, Expert.
Now these words will appear on many columns at a row level. I wouldn't like to create a custom column cause it would take me a lot of time cause i would need to create as many custom columns as many questions I have. What i would like to do is set up some rules and assign a numeric value to each option such as: Novice = 1; Understand basics = 2; and so on.
Does anyone knows how i can achieve this?
Thanks in advance,
Since, there are many columns which you need to make this replacement and you don't want to create new columns, I would suggest you should do this in Power Query which will do the replacement within the columns themselves
Select all columns which are for questions
Transform - Replace values - Replace Novice with 1. Do the same for other words as well with their respective values as well.
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Since, there are many columns which you need to make this replacement and you don't want to create new columns, I would suggest you should do this in Power Query which will do the replacement within the columns themselves
Select all columns which are for questions
Transform - Replace values - Replace Novice with 1. Do the same for other words as well with their respective values as well.
Alessandro-laba , Based on what I got
A new column
Switch( Table[Column],
"Novice" , 1,
"Understand basics", 2,
// Add other values
)
If there are circular dependencies then create a new column
column1 =[Column]
Then the set other column as the sort column
Hello amitchandak,
How can I do the same with a measurement instead of creating a new column, when Swicth is asking me for an expresion over this text column
Regards
