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I have a column called name and the data entry is like this:
YYYYYY-WRLD-TEAMS-TYPES / name
the format is always the same with the same number of digits before the /.
I need to group based on the "types" part of the name as currently they all start with "WEBxx" and are grouped as one value "Website". I need to split them out so I can plot on a graph e.g.
WEB01
WEB02
WEB03
and track the numbers/performance as individual items.
How can I achieve this? thanks
thanks for the reply .. it's characters in the middle
YYYYYY-WRLD-TEAMS-"TYPES" / name
also looks like I don't have access to use Power Query Editor ,so will have to ask an admin to create for me.
Hi @sleekpeek ,
If they all start with WEBxx,
DAX calculated column:
Type =
LEFT ( data[column], 5 )
Power Query:
You can extract the first characters and you can either create a new column or transform the existing one.
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