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FrankvanDorp
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2 years ago
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How to make PowerBI look for a partial string in a Text Filter with user input

I have an app containing data about specific web pages. I want to allow users of this app to paste the URL of a page into a text filter to get data specific to that URL. However, there are often ext...
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    Ritaf1983
    2 years ago

    Hi FrankvanDorp 
    Unfortunately, all text slicers (including external from the market place) can search for text based on partial input, but they cannot ignore irrelevant characters and perform a search based on something that is only "similar" to the beginning.

    There is an idea about a similar issue you can vote for it or post your idea :

    https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=6242eec2-fa3e-ec11-a3ee-281878e61691

    If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Ritaf1983
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2 years ago

Hi FrankvanDorp 
Unfortunately, all text slicers (including external from the market place) can search for text based on partial input, but they cannot ignore irrelevant characters and perform a search based on something that is only "similar" to the beginning.

There is an idea about a similar issue you can vote for it or post your idea :

https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=6242eec2-fa3e-ec11-a3ee-281878e61691

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.