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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Exclude items from a filtered list

I have a master table of person's names and I have a separate table of individuals I want to exclude from the master list.   Rather than removing the individuals one by one from the visual/page/rep...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Found 2 methods doing so:

    1) Except(SelectColumns(MasterTable, "XXX", MasterTabl[Name]), SelectColumns(ListToExclude, "YYY", ListToExclude[Name]))

     

    2) Anti Join using merge queries

     

    thanks!

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

This is the error I am having:

 

 

A single value for column 'name' in table 'MasterTable' cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result.

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AlB
Community Champion
7 years ago

 

Neither of the options suggested above are measures. They're both calculated tables as indicated  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Found 2 methods doing so:

    1) Except(SelectColumns(MasterTable, "XXX", MasterTabl[Name]), SelectColumns(ListToExclude, "YYY", ListToExclude[Name]))

     

    2) Anti Join using merge queries

     

    thanks!