Count occurrence of values within a comma separated list

[Hiriji_ZA]

Hi all,

I am very new to Power BI (loving it thought!) and need some help, either with how I solve this via DAX or any alternative suggestions.

My use case is that I have several project plans which contain a list of project tasks and resources assigned thereto. Much like in MS Project, the resources are a comma separated list of names. I've created a new table in which I combine the project tasks and these resources and that's what I'm building my report on.

I'm looking for a way to gauge capacity of my team based on how often their names appear on the tasks. SOme of the challenges with the data:

• The order is not always the same
• There are typos at times, though I can handle this at a source level
• There might be 1 name or 7, so need a way to make it flexible

I want to show this data in a bar chart. I started by splitting the names into columns by a comma delimenator but I wasn't sure whether I could just do this via Dax on the original column.

My dataset sample essentially looks like this:

Resource.1	Resource.2	Resource.3
William	John	null
Sandra	null	null
John	William	Sandra

What's the best way to approach this?

[Ashish_Mathur · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In the Query Editor, when splitting the column, expland the Advanced Options traingle and select rows.

[Hiriji_ZA]

Thanks, I needed to take a step back to see the obvious. 

[Ashish_Mathur]

You are welcome.

[lbendlin]

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