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DLB13
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Helper I

Dynamic Text Based on Variable

Hi all - 

 

Quick question from a brand new user with a problem I am hoping to solve today. I am looking to display the most frequent responses to a survey--data is stored in Excel. Let's say it's "what are your favorite fruits." I would like the variables to be counted and the top three items - as text - show up in a power BI report. I've been doing a bit of googling, but haven't found quite the right trick yet. Thanks in advance for advice!

 

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v-deddai1-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @DLB13 ,

 

Would you please show us some sample data? And we can help you well.

 

According to your description, I created some sample data myself, hope this will help you.

 

Untitled picture5.png

 

 

Please refer to the pbix file: https://qiuyunus-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/pbipro_qiuyunus_onmicrosoft_com/EaWiun0mzHNBkwGdlV...

 

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

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v-deddai1-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @DLB13 ,

 

Would you please show us some sample data? And we can help you well.

 

According to your description, I created some sample data myself, hope this will help you.

 

Untitled picture5.png

 

 

Please refer to the pbix file: https://qiuyunus-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/pbipro_qiuyunus_onmicrosoft_com/EaWiun0mzHNBkwGdlV...

 

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

d_gosbell
Super User
Super User

It's hard to answer this precisely without know what the names of your tables and columns are, but you should be able to use a pattern like the following using CONCATENATEX over the TOPN function:

 

CONCATENATEX( TOPN(3, Responses[Fruits], [Count of Responses) , Response[Fruits], ",")

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