Filter / Display rows based on substring present within a slicer

[vishal0soni]

I have a list of items (Apple, Bat, Cherry, Dog, and Elephant).

One or more of these items may or may not appear in the list of multiple comma-separated keywords (Apple, Cherry, Elephant).

What i need to do is to filter out the list of rows having only the selected keyword. So if I select the item "Apple", it should display only the rows having this keyword.

I am able to find out the rows having this item, but not able to display only the identified rows.Slicers for comma-separated values

Here, when i click "Apple" in slicer, it shall display only the rows having Apple keyword in the next table.

[vishal0soni · Accepted solution]

I think I got the easiest way of doing this just by using SEARCH function.

We can write this measure:

Exists = SEARCH(

    SELECTEDVALUE('Products'[Product]),

    SELECTEDVALUE(Solution_Products[SolutionProducts]),

    ,-1)

And then use this as a filter criterion for displaying the values. 

It works perfectly fine as desired. 

[Ritaf1983]

Hi @vishal0soni 

Please refer to the linked tutorial of @amitchandak :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKWeOqFG4c

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[vishal0soni]

Thanks @Ritaf1983 

This looks good and promising. However, there is a challenge, the list of keywords is huge (hundreds of books), and each row has large number of keywords (all nouns in a book).  So making a duplicate column, and then normalizing that entire table would result in huge list I believe.

[Ritaf1983]

@vishal0soni Unfortunately I don't think we have another kind of solution, that's necessary to make the relationship...same logic as lookup.

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[vishal0soni]

Can we make use of string functions like FIND or SEARCH dynamically to obtain the desired results on the fly?

[Ritaf1983]

@vishal0soni I don't see how it can work with the slicers...
but you can try to play with it...

[vishal0soni]

@Ritaf1983 I got it. Used SEARCH function in a measure, and then used that in the filter.