Join us at FabCon Atlanta from March 16 - 20, 2026, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.
Register now!The Power BI Data Visualization World Championships is back! It's time to submit your entry. Live now!
How Do I Extract the Text Found at the First DN= of the Distinguished Name?
Here is a Distinguished Name:
CN=Test,OU=Iowa,OU=Primary,DC=NA,DC=US,DC=COM
CN=Test,OU=Primary,DC=NA,DC=US,DC=COM
I want the output of the above to be NA
Essentially it would find the first occurnance from the left of DC= and return the text after that untill the next ,
This would give me the domain of each user.
Thank You Ahead of Time.
Solved! Go to Solution.
OK, that means that some of your values don't have a DC= in them so you will want to use the "Not Found Value" parameter of FIND. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/find-function-dax
So, something like:
Column =
VAR myStart = FIND("DC=",[DN],,-99)
VAR myEnd = IF(myStart=-99,-99,FIND("DC=",[DN],myStart+3,-99))
RETURN IF(myEnd=-99,BLANK(),MID([DN],myStart+3,myEnd-myStart-4))
Column =
VAR myStart = FIND("DC=",[DN])
VAR myEnd = FIND("DC=",[DN],myStart+3)
RETURN MID([DN],myStart+3,myEnd-myStart-4)
I get this error, "The search TExt Provided to function 'FIND' could not be found in the given text.
@Edit
It does not like FIND("DC=",[distinguishedName]) but does accept FIND("DC=",[distinguishedName],1,0) for whatever reason that is whats throwing the error
OK, that means that some of your values don't have a DC= in them so you will want to use the "Not Found Value" parameter of FIND. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/find-function-dax
So, something like:
Column =
VAR myStart = FIND("DC=",[DN],,-99)
VAR myEnd = IF(myStart=-99,-99,FIND("DC=",[DN],myStart+3,-99))
RETURN IF(myEnd=-99,BLANK(),MID([DN],myStart+3,myEnd-myStart-4))
That works Perfectly. Thank you.
The Power BI Data Visualization World Championships is back! It's time to submit your entry.
Check out the January 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 61 | |
| 48 | |
| 35 | |
| 25 | |
| 23 |
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 134 | |
| 110 | |
| 59 | |
| 39 | |
| 32 |