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xiumi_hou
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Need help: How to search a specfic text in column

Dear all,

 

I have a column, and it all show "See detailview" like this:

SEE DETAILS.JPG

However, when I expend this column, the actual value stored in this column like this , this is what I actually want to search in this column, is this something I can fix by power BI or this is fixed by the pre-set up in our database? Thank you so much for your help: 

SEE DETAILS2.JPG

 

 

 

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amitchandak
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I am not sure I got it completely. But please refer

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Search-text-within-drop-down-filter/td-p/428492

https://exceleratorbi.com.au/text-filtering-power-bi/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/search-function-dax

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Search-functionality-in-Power-BI/td-p/48264

 

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Thank you so much for answering. Actually, for the firstpicture I showed - column 'Name', you can see it all showe "See DetailView", Actually what real stored for each line is like the second picture. Is there a way I can search the real text that stored in the database? Thanks!

@amitchandak 

Also you can use the ask a question button to search directly the data:

Capture.JPG

if you select the filter option and the values you can search there by selecting the 3 dots on the top. However, to display the data that you have maybe you need to change the format to text.

Hi @xiumi_hou ,

 

So there are multi values in each rows ? Could you please share about what kind of data source you are using and the data connective mode? How about the result if you put this field into a slicer? Please don't have any Confidential Information or Real data in your reply.

 

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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