Good afternoon Community,
I have a question.
I have a column with name and first name (see picture)
I want to create a column with an alias like that
Agent : DUPONT Alain
Alias adupont
then merge with a column who have the folder name :
Foldername : Demo
Finalresult : Demo\adupont
Do you have any idea ?
Add new column for alias:
alias =
var f = FIND(" ", Employee[Name], , -1)
return lower(left(if(f = -1, Employee[Name], MID(Employee[Name], f+1, 100)), 1) & if(f = -1, Employee[Name], MID(Employee[Name],1, f-1)))to get final result , add another column , assuming you already have folder column with "\"
Final Result = table[Folder] & "\" & table[Alias]
you can do all this in column formula as well.
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Picture is too small. You should probably create a column that splits your column on the space, grabs the left hand part, concatenate with the first character of the right-hand part (LEFT). CONCATENATE with "Demo\".
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Add new column for alias:
alias =
var f = FIND(" ", Employee[Name], , -1)
return lower(left(if(f = -1, Employee[Name], MID(Employee[Name], f+1, 100)), 1) & if(f = -1, Employee[Name], MID(Employee[Name],1, f-1)))to get final result , add another column , assuming you already have folder column with "\"
Final Result = table[Folder] & "\" & table[Alias]
you can do all this in column formula as well.
Subscribe to the @PowerBIHowTo YT channel for an upcoming video on List and Record functions in Power Query!!
Learn Power BI and Fabric - subscribe to our YT channel - Click here: @PowerBIHowTo
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Hi Parry2K,
Thank you for your answer 🙂
I didn't know that DAX was getting so close to Excel.
It's working.
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