Assign a value to text

[Alessandro-laba]

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,

[randyvdr]

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 

[Vijay_A_Verma · Accepted solution]

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.

[amitchandak]

@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