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InsightSeeker
Helper III
2 years ago
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Need help with DAX formula

I need help to achieve the results shown in the table below.   Essentially, in the 'Category' column, if all the values are the same, then return the first value; otherwise, return 'Mix...
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  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    This calculated column formula works

    Column = if(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(Data[Category],"-",BLANK()),LEFT(Data[Category],SEARCH("-",Data[Category],,20)-1),BLANK())="",LEFT(Data[Category],SEARCH("-",Data[Category],,20)-1),"Mix")

    Hope this helps.

     

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InsightSeeker
Helper III
2 years ago

Hi Anonymous  - yes i do have some cells which does not have any values, how can i handle this?

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Anonymous
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2 years ago

InsightSeeker Can you show how those data looks like? 

I made a test with blank and "-" in cells but the previous formula works for both. Those rows display blank in the column without any error. 

 

I did some more test and found that the error you met is probably caused by the len argument in GENERATESERIES function. If it is blank, the error happens. So please check whether len returns correct values for all rows. You can modify the formula to return len to check the result. For example, in my below test, it should return a number on every row rather than blank.