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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 |
Solved! Go to Solution.
@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 ()
)
)
@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 ()
)
)
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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