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So, I have a data source from a survey that has numerous answers for one field, separated by semi-colons, like this:
I have managed to split and sort the answers like this (below), but you can see when I sort it, it's not quite grouping the responses together correctly:
So, when I graph it, it looks like this, with multiple entries for some responses (e.g. Monthly plant/offsite audits appears twice with 3 responses for one instance, and 2 responses for the other instance, instead of 5 in total):
I think maybe it's something to do with the way I have split the table with the semicolon, with some potentially having a 'space' beforehand and others not? Help please!
Thanks for your help... but I tried just using the "Trim Text" option in Power Query to remove the space from the start of the text after splitting, which worked a treat. Simple solution... just took me a while to find it!
@KathyO , Based on what I got, Create sub category index in the power query use a measure on top of that on the tooltip, and sort based on that to create max (Table[Sub index])
Power BI and Power Query- Sub Category Rank and Index: https://youtu.be/tMBviW4-s4A
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