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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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Measure with IF( CONTAINSSTRING

Hi 😀 Help me please I want to create Measure like IF(CONTAINSSTRING( table[text_col] ,"ABC"), TRUE(), FALSE()) This formula as is doesn't work. What is wrong?
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    In meantime I found solution

     
    SUMX(
       FILTER(
            table,
            CONTAINSSTRING(table'[string_col], "ABC")),
        1)


    It come from this page 

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JorgePinho
Solution Sage
3 years ago

Since you don't want a calculated column, it is missing an aggregator. I don't know what you pretend to do with the measure. If you're idea is to use it in a table visual then you can do something like this:

IF(CONTAINSSTRING( MAX(table[text_col]) ,"ABC"), TRUE(), FALSE())

 

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

it doesn't work, it return False for all rows