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Creating a Column that Searches for Strings in a Filtered Second Unrelated Table

I have a fairly convoluted problem that I could solve in a few minutes with Javascript but seem to be unable to solve with DAX or PowerBI. Heres my setup;

 

I have several tables, but of most importance to this problem, is a Search Term Data table and a Keyword Data table. These tables are both connected to a Campaigns table via a many to one relationship on a Campaign ID related connection.

 

I am trying to determine, for each entry in Search Term Data, if a Search Term already appears as a Keyword in the Keyword Data table. Complicating this challenge is the need for both Search Term Data and Keyword Data tables be filtered in scope to a specific Campaign ID for this query. If the value does already exist returning TRUE or "Yes" is an ideal goal.

 

I believe for this to work as intended, I need to create a new column so that each row of Search Term Data has its own result. When I searched around, most of the similar questions here did not work or account for this specific use case with both tables needing to be filtered first.

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A lot going on, so i'm not sure if I understood the scenario.

 

A few months ago I created a search keyword across multiple fields & table by playing around with the model.

 

Have you thought about merging Table.[Search Term Data] with Table.[Keyword Data] in the edit queries?

If you do that you can have both columns next to each other and easily do anything you want.

 

  1. create a new custom column = Text.From([CampaignID]) & "|" & Text.From([SearchTerm]) in Table.[Search Term Data]
  2. Then another in Table.[Keyword Data] = Text.From([CampaignID]) & "|" & Text.From([Keyword])
  3. Merge (Full Outer) both tables on the custom column.
  4. Create a new CampaignID column to combine both CampaingIDs in case of empty rows.
  5. Map that to Campaign table.

The end result can look like this:

(I merged Keyword into Search Term) I would send you this pbix if I could, but there isn't an option for that.

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