Concatenate Measure not Custom Column

[Anonymous]

I need to Concatenate Two text strings for a Matrix to simplify the view. We have a Data Cube that does not allow the addition of Tables or Custom Columns. DAX CONCATENATE is for a custom Column. 

I cannot figure out how to do this wirth a Measure. I saw one solution but it basically grabs all data and it is not recommended due to the slowdown of the processing. 

Any Ideas?

Thank you.

[v-lili6-msft]

Hi@ Moscuba

You can try to this measure as below:

Measure 3 = CONCATENATE (
SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table2'[PCATID]  )&"_",
SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Table2'[PCAT Name] )
)

Result:

Best Regards,

Lin

[shaikarshad29]

Is it possible to include the final concatenated srting in table, without making use of original string columns inside table from where the final stringw as derived? 

[ianjablonski]

This is the same measure i was looking for except i would like to extend it by making it a count.
Said differently I would like the measure to return the count of "Measure 3", in your example, to be used in a Card .

Can this be done ?
Thansk You

[Anonymous]

This is the perfect answer which I was looking for, Thanks lot for the help. Even on the microsoft own portal they mentioned the Dax function but the syntax is incorrect when we tried using text filed name which is not measures

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/concatenate-function-dax

=CONCATENATE(Customer[LastName], CONCATENATE(", ", Customer[FirstName]))

[Greg_Deckler]

You can use CONCATENATE in a measure. Sample data would help tremendously. Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

[Anonymous]

The Data is Text columns in this case.  When I trierd CONCATENATE it did not work. It refused to use valid table and fields. 

Here is the example I saw in the DAX Pages:

=CONCATENATE(Customer[LastName], CONCATENATE(", ", Customer[FirstName]))

PCATID                   PCAT Name

AAAA                      Sealant 1

AAAB                      Sealant 2

BBBA                      Adheasive1

BBBB                       Adheasive2

I'' like to join the two with a space or underscore in between like:

AAAA _Sealant1

No Number conversions needed.

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

Does this work?

=VALUES([PCATID])&"_"&VALUES([PCAT Name])

or

=CONCATENATEX(Data,VALUES([PCATID])&"_"&VALUES([PCAT Name]))

[Greg_Deckler]

When working with measures, you need to do an aggregation on a column, like MAX:

Measure = MAX([PCATID]) & "_" & MAX([PCAT Name]) 

And I would use the & operator instead of CONCATENATE.

[Anonymous]

The MAX will not work mwith Text / String. That was the only solution that accepted the fields though. 

CONCATENATE Will not accept the fields and I tried ISTEXT. 

This is very odd and I'm wondering if it's ther table format. Though, everywhere I look I see that concatenating needs to be done as a Column. 

We'll be requesting that we can make columns in the data "cube". 

Cheers and thank you.

[Anonymous]

The MAX will not work mwith Text / String. That was the only solution that accepted the fields though. 

CONCATENATE Will not accept the fields and I tried ISTEXT. 

This is very odd and I'm wondering if it's ther table format. Though, everywhere I look I see that concatenating needs to be done as a Column. 

We'll be requesting that we can make columns in the data "cube". 

Cheers and thank you.