How do I use DAX to see if a field contains text in an unrelated table?

[Anonymous]

I have two unrelated tables where Table1 contains a list of items and Table2 contains a list of key terms. I want to check and see if each value in Table1 contains any value in Table 2.

Table1 is as follows:

Value

Snickers Bar

A-1 Gift Card

R-QAL Voucher

Table2 is as follows:

ID        Term

1        Snickers

2        Gift Card

3        Voucher

I want to return the Table2[ID] if the value in Table1[Value] contains a term in Table2. This is the desired result:

Value                        TermID

Snickers Bar                  1

A-1 Gift Card                2

R-QAL Voucher            3

[v-frfei-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

One sample for your reference. Please check the following steps as below.

1. Create a calculated table and insert a calculated column in it.

Table = CROSSJOIN(Table1,Table2)

Column = SEARCH('Table'[Term],'Table'[Value],,0)

2. Create another new calculated table to get the result.

RESULT =
CALCULATETABLE (
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Value", 'Table'[Value], "TearmID", 'Table'[ID] ),
    'Table'[Column] <> 0
)

Pbix as attached.

[yelsherif]

I suggest to add a column in Table1 to separate the keyword from the text column, like:

newColumn = 

switch(true,

FIND("Snickers",[Value])>0, "Snickers",
Find("Gift card",[Value])>0, "Gift card",

Find("Voucher",[Value])>0, "Voucher"

)

Then set a relationship between Table1 and Table2 on this newColumn and the Term

Finally you can create a table with Table1[Value] and Table2[ID]

[parry2k]

@Anonymous you can add following column to get id

TermId = 
CALCULATE( MAX( TermTable[TermId] ), 
FILTER( TermTable, SEARCH( TermTable[Term], Table[Value], , -1 ) > 0 )
 )