Column Filtering containing value

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys,

Wondered if you could help on this one. I have a dataset with items which are sometimes tagged as Blocked. I want to filter my dataset down so I have items that may once have been tagged as Blocked...but to also retain the times they were not blocked. 

See below I want to find a way to filter the column to only retain the red section...

Can this be done?

[AlB]

@Anonymous 

NewTable2 =
FILTER (
    Table1,
    CALCULATE (
        COUNT ( Table1[TagNames] ),
        SEARCH ( "Blocked", Table1[TagNames], 1, 0 ) > 0,
        ALLEXCEPT ( Table1, Table1[WorkItemId] )
    ) > 0
)

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[Anonymous]

@AlB what would the current DAX need to be (referring to second part of your answer) if I wanted to include any time there was the word "blocked" (for example if someone used the tag 'blocked - data') and for it be case insensitive?

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys, both of these solutions work - appreciate your help. I also added 

"blocked", Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

To the first response, just as I noticed I missed some with a capital B 🙂

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , You can create a new column like this and filter blocked

new column =
var _cnt = countx(filter(Table, [workitemid] = earlier([workitemid]) && [Tagnames] ="Blocked"), [workitemid])+0
return
if(_cnt >0 , "Blocked", Blank())

[AlB · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

Please always show your sample data in text-tabular format in addition to (or instead of) the screen captures. A screen cap doesn't allow people to readily copy the data and run a quick test and thus decreases the likelihood of your question being answered. Just use 'Copy table' in Power BI and paste it here. Or, ideally, share the pbix (beware of confidential data).

Place the following M code in a blank query to see the steps based on a simplified source table:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQwUNJRMgRipVgdGNcIlWuMyjWBcY0NLQyNLZC1w0VAJjjl5Cdnp6agShjjkoCbaoTqIiNUFxmhusgIyUWxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [WorkItemId = _t, ChangedDate = _t, TagNames = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"WorkItemId", Int64.Type}, {"ChangedDate", Int64.Type}, {"TagNames", type text}}),

    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.Contains(Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", (inner)=> inner[WorkItemId]=[WorkItemId])[TagNames], "Blocked"))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

You can also create a new calculated table in DAX, although I would recommend the PQ route:

NewTable = 
FILTER( Table1, 
        CALCULATE(COUNT(Table1[TagNames]), Table1[TagNames] = "Blocked", ALLEXCEPT(Table1, Table1[WorkItemId])) > 0
)

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Cheers