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KimmoS
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2 years ago
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How to build a search from a longer string?

Hello! I have a large amount of rows containing this kind of five char substrings and I would like to create a text search in a visualisation to search for example all rows (row_id) containing for e...
  • Ahmedx's avatar
    2 years ago

    Please try the visual called "Text Filter".

  • speedramps's avatar
    2 years ago

    You can do it by downloading a Text search slicer. Learn how here

    https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/databrotherssro1596013704866.dbi_text_search_slicer?tab=overview

     

    However, I suspect each of your records has comma delimited tags?

     

    For example, with a Product name the and Tags

    TV, speaker, screen, aerial, remote

    Radio, aerial, speaker, LCD display

    Phone, aerial, speaker, screen

     

     

    It is best practice to use Power Query to parse these to a 2-column table  with Product  and one Tags

    TV, speaker,

    TV, screen,

    1. aerial

    TV, remote

    Radio, aerial

    Radio, speaker

    Radio, LCD display

     

    Then just user a standard filer with the search option turned on.

    See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/import-modeling-data-reduction

     

    This will not increase storage; it will actually reduce storage and improve performance because Power BI uses a columnar rather than a tabular database. Power  BI will process millions of rows with just 2 short columns much faster than searching for a string in long text. It is a concept that novices struggle to understand.

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