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Filtering a table using values in a separate table and wild character
Dear community,
I need your help.
I have a Table_A containing 2 columns:
- ID
- Description
I have a Table_B containing one column:
- Lookup
And I'd like to filter the rows in Table_A using the following rule: select * from Table_A where description "contains" any value in the column Lookup.
Let me explain better with an example:
Table_A
1 Corporate|House
2 House
3 Car|Corporate|Bike
4 Van
Table_B
Corporate
Van
I want to return the rows 1,3 and 4 becasue they contains one of the values in the Table_B
Many thanks
A.
I think I found a solution in this article:
Hope this can be of any help to other users as well
A.
4 Replies
You may want to look at this blog post as it is a similar data structure. https://marqueeinsights.com/how-to-work-with-sharepoint-multi-value-columns-in-power-bi/
What you don't have is a cross-reference between Table A and Table B. The post shows you how to easily do this and set up the relationships so that you can filter as described.
Hope this helps!
--Treb, Power BI MVP
Check out our Power BI blog posts at https://marqueeinsights.com/category/power-bi/
aabati
I assumed there is a relationship between the tables, you would need to first split the description column by "|“. Then create a calculated table using the below function to filtered the matched results.Table = CALCULATETABLE(TableA,FILTER(TableA,TableA[Discription.1] in VALUES(TableB[Lookup])||TableA[Discription.2] in VALUES(TableB[Lookup])||TableA[Discription.3] in VALUES(TableB[Lookup])))
BTW you could use CONCATENATE function to join them together if needed.
Best,
PaulThanks Paul for the replay
I understand you solution but in my case I dont have a defined and limited number of | (pipe delimiters).
This is why I was looking for a kind of "Select like %' function.
Thanks
A.
I think I found a solution in this article:
Hope this can be of any help to other users as well
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