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Anonymous
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Calculated column using SWITCH fucntion

Hi Experts ,

I am new to Power BI .

My requirement is I need to populate  calculated column as Group from the existing column Item  for example 

Item                       Group

Shirt                        Cloth

Pants                      Cloth 

Laptop                    Electronic Device 

Mobile                    Electronic Device

 

Kindly suggest .

 

Regards

Ganesh Jagdhane 

 

 

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JarroVGIT
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Hi @Anonymous ,

You may add a calculated column to your table with the following DAX:

Group = 
SWITCH(TRUE(),
    'Table'[Item] = "Shirt", "Cloth",
    'Table'[Item] = "Pants", "Cloth",
    'Table'[Item] = "Laptop", "Electronic Device",
    'Table'[Item] = "Mobile", "Electronic Device",
    "Other")

Is this what you are looking for?

 

Kind regards

Djerro123

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JarroVGIT
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Resident Rockstar

Hi @Anonymous ,

You may add a calculated column to your table with the following DAX:

Group = 
SWITCH(TRUE(),
    'Table'[Item] = "Shirt", "Cloth",
    'Table'[Item] = "Pants", "Cloth",
    'Table'[Item] = "Laptop", "Electronic Device",
    'Table'[Item] = "Mobile", "Electronic Device",
    "Other")

Is this what you are looking for?

 

Kind regards

Djerro123

-------------------------------

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Keep those thumbs up coming! 🙂





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az38
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@Anonymous @JarroVGIT 

in case of simple comparision with the only column it should be easier to use statement like

Group = 
SWITCH('Table'[Item],
    "Shirt", "Cloth",
    "Pants", "Cloth",
    "Laptop", "Electronic Device",
    "Mobile", "Electronic Device",
    "Other")

 

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