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MichaelSt
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Remove Empty Colums

Hi community,

I have an tabe that has the following format:
Based on a slider on a dropdown on Formname, The records of the table are filtered. 

Formname | SubmissionDate | FirstName | Lastname | Email | City | Address

Sometimes for a specific Formname, the Email, city, Adress or other n colums are empty. 
The customer really wants to get the table filtered and remove the colums that are empty from the report and from the export of the data. I dont know how the handle this problem. 
I thought about a measure that filters the table and removes the blank columns, but I'm not skilled enough to do that. 
Do I even have chances here to achive this with dax?
Thanks in advance!

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v-luwang-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @MichaelSt ,

You could try the following steps:

Step1: create a measure like below:

Measure = 
IF (
    MAX ( 'Table'[SubmissionDate ] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[FirstName] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[FirstName] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Lastname] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Email] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[City] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Address] ) = BLANK (),
    BLANK (),
    1
)

Step 2: configure the filters:

v-luwang-msft_0-1616742128657.png

 

base data:

v-luwang-msft_1-1616742153706.png

 

and final:

v-luwang-msft_2-1616742168187.png

 

 

Wish it is helpful for you!

Best Regards

Lucien

 

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v-luwang-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @MichaelSt ,

You could try the following steps:

Step1: create a measure like below:

Measure = 
IF (
    MAX ( 'Table'[SubmissionDate ] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[FirstName] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[FirstName] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Lastname] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Email] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[City] ) = BLANK ()
        || MAX ( 'Table'[Address] ) = BLANK (),
    BLANK (),
    1
)

Step 2: configure the filters:

v-luwang-msft_0-1616742128657.png

 

base data:

v-luwang-msft_1-1616742153706.png

 

and final:

v-luwang-msft_2-1616742168187.png

 

 

Wish it is helpful for you!

Best Regards

Lucien

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

HI @MichaelSt 

Create a measure as below and use it in the Filter section of the report and set it always filter to 1.

-Filter = IF(ISBLANK(Formname) || ISBLANK(SubmissionDate) || ISBLANK(FirstName) || ISBLANK(Lastname) || ISBLANK(Email) || ISBLANK(City) || ISBLANK(Address), 0, 1)

Hi, thanks for your answer first of all.
I guess thats not quite what I'm looking for. Thats a DAX for a calculated column, not for a Measure, right? At least I can only use it there..

Either way doesn't the filter remove columns. It would only filter the rows right?
I need to remove the columns if they are empty from the Visual

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