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bvy
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PBI - Button Label Ignoring Multiple Spaces

I have measures that are meant to generate labels inside of a Button control. I use the f(x) feature which allows me to choose the button text from my data model. So I might have something like this: 

 

_ButtonLabel = [DAX bla bla bla] & " - " & [DAX bla bla bla]

 

which works fine. But what I want is this: 

 

_ButtonLabel = [DAX bla bla bla] & "     -     " & [DAX bla bla bla]

 

See how I added FIVE spaces on either side of the hyphen? When the label text appears in my button, Power BI collapses all multiple instaces of the space back to one. So basically both expressions above give the same result. 

 

Does anyone see a workaround? I want the extra spaces for formatting. Thanks. 

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parry2k
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@bvy weird, maybe add nonprintable unichar characters instead of space.

 

 

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parry2k
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@bvy good to know. cheers! Thanks for sharing.

 

 

 

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Samarth_18
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Hi @bvy ,

 

You can try like this:-

Measure = 
var _varA = [DAX bla bla bla]
var _varB = [DAX bla bla bla]
return CONCATENATE(CONCATENATE(_varA ,"     -     "), _varB)

 

Thanks,

Samarth

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parry2k
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@bvy weird, maybe add nonprintable unichar characters instead of space.

 

 

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Yes that worked. UNICHAR(160) + UNICHAR(160) displays two spaces, whereas "  " and UNICHAR(32) + UNICHAR(32) collapses the spaces down to one instance. Thank you. 

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