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Wkeith
Helper II
Helper II

Duplicate Concatenate Question

Hi, I am trying to concatenate products that belong to the same order ID to do some market basket analysis. So for example, lets say for an order number that has these products sold in it: Milk, Bread, Milk, and Eggs (the reason why there is two milks is because a customer bought two different brands of milk). I am trying to concatenate these values in a new calculated column in my sales table to be, "Milk-Bread-Eggs" but right now with my current forumla: 

 

Market Basket =
CALCULATE(
CONCATENATEX(Sales, Sales[Product], “-“ ),
FILTER(
ALL(Sales),
Sales[Transaction ID] = EARLIER(Sales[Transaction ID])
)
)

The result I am getting is, "Milk-Bread-Milk-Eggs". But I don't want the Milk to show twice in my new column, I only want it to appear once.

 

Does anyone know a way I can edit my current forumla to adjust for this issue?

 

Thanks! @Cmcmahan 

 

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MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi @Wkeith ,

 

Try to change you formula to something similar to this:

 

Market Basket =
CALCULATE(
CONCATENATEX(DISTINCT(Sales[Product]), Sales[Product], “-“ ),
FILTER(
ALL(Sales),
Sales[Transaction ID] = EARLIER(Sales[Transaction ID])
)
)

Regards,

MFelix


Regards

Miguel Félix


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MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi @Wkeith ,

 

Try to change you formula to something similar to this:

 

Market Basket =
CALCULATE(
CONCATENATEX(DISTINCT(Sales[Product]), Sales[Product], “-“ ),
FILTER(
ALL(Sales),
Sales[Transaction ID] = EARLIER(Sales[Transaction ID])
)
)

Regards,

MFelix


Regards

Miguel Félix


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



Thanks! You rock. 

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