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DorienM
Helper II
Helper II

How can I include multiple strings in a "Does not contain" filter?

I have a table that I need to filter out rows where 'Table1'[Name] does not contain one of many strings, this is easy to do if I only have two potential strings but in my case I have upwards of 10+ strings I need to filter out. I would prefer to do this on the report itself using visual level filters rather than in Power Query if possible.

 

As an example I need to exclude rows in the table below that contain one of "TEST", "DEV, or "TRAINING".

Name
3042-TEST
VDI-2291
WIN10-DEV1
KEVIN
TRAINING-21
TRAINING-22
TRAINING-23
DC-CGY1
SQLSVR1

 

This should return these rows only:

Name
VDI-2291
KEVIN
DC-CGY1
SQLSVR1
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smpa01
Super User
Super User

@DorienM  you can use the following measure

Measure =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( t1 ),
    FILTER (
        t1,
        CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "TEST" ) = FALSE ()
            && CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "DEV" ) = FALSE ()
            && CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "TRAINING" ) = FALSE ()
    )
)

 

smpa01_0-1636484222891.png

 

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smpa01
Super User
Super User

@DorienM  you can use the following measure

Measure =
CALCULATE (
    COUNTROWS ( t1 ),
    FILTER (
        t1,
        CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "TEST" ) = FALSE ()
            && CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "DEV" ) = FALSE ()
            && CONTAINSSTRING ( t1[Name], "TRAINING" ) = FALSE ()
    )
)

 

smpa01_0-1636484222891.png

 

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My custom visualization projects
Plotting Live Sound: Viz1
Beautiful News:Viz1, Viz2, Viz3
Visual Capitalist: Working Hrs

 

If you don't want to use a measure, the following youtube video helped me, it seems the native UI can do this if you trick it slightly!

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

 

That worked great, thanks 🙂

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