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Create New Column with If Text Contains parameters
I'm sorry, I have read all the 'text contains' articles and have tried the formulas for my data, but I just can't get my formula to work!
I have a table with a field with six possible values:
New Warm, New Hot, New Cold, Existing Warm, Existing Hot, Existing Cold
I want to create a visual that just shows me a pie chart of "new" vs "existing". So, I'm trying to create a custom column where If the value is either New Warm, New Hot or New Cold, then just give me a value of "New", else "Existing".
I've tried formulas for containsstring, contains.text etc.. I always get these two errors.
It doesn't recognise "IF"
If I add an =, then I get the literal token message
Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.
Vikki
Hi, I am not sure if I understood your question correctly, but please try something like below.
One thing to note is that Uppercase and lowercase has to be exactly the same, when using Power Query Editor.
2 Replies
- Jihwan_KimSuper User
Hi, I am not sure if I understood your question correctly, but please try something like below.
One thing to note is that Uppercase and lowercase has to be exactly the same, when using Power Query Editor.
- VrowePPAFrequent Visitor
Thank you, yes your example is the result I am trying to achieve. Your insutrction helped the formula to run. However, I still get an error: A cyclic reference was encountered during evaluation.