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Anonymous
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How to get if else for a text field in Measure

HI I have a table with column as Color as below:

Color

 

Red
Green
Yellow
Pink

What I need is to create a measure like this:

Color    Measure
Red       1
green    2
Yellow   3
Pink       4

I hope this is simple and can be easily done, I am trying if else but unable to get the result.

Thanks

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v-qiuyu-msft
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

You can create a measure with If() function or Switch() function, see: 

 

Measure(IF) = IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Red",1,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="green",2,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Yellow",3,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Pink",4,BLANK()))))

 

Measure(Switch) = SWITCH(TRUE(),MAX('Table3'[Color])="Red",1,MAX('Table3'[Color])="green",2,MAX('Table3'[Color])="Yellow",3,MAX('Table3'[Color])="Pink",4,BLANK())

 

q1.PNG

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

Community Support Team _ Qiuyun Yu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-qiuyu-msft
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Community Support

Hi @Anonymous,

 

You can create a measure with If() function or Switch() function, see: 

 

Measure(IF) = IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Red",1,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="green",2,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Yellow",3,IF(MAX('Table3'[Color])="Pink",4,BLANK()))))

 

Measure(Switch) = SWITCH(TRUE(),MAX('Table3'[Color])="Red",1,MAX('Table3'[Color])="green",2,MAX('Table3'[Color])="Yellow",3,MAX('Table3'[Color])="Pink",4,BLANK())

 

q1.PNG

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

Community Support Team _ Qiuyun Yu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi, i´m new with P.BI, i used your formula for my problem and it worked, but i don´t understand why you use MAX with text values, ¿Could you explain it?

 

thanks!

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