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ManchevB's avatar
ManchevB
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1 year ago
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Splitting a column from a PowerBI formula

Hi all,    I have this formula here:   7.SkillAvailabilityByCountry = VAR AllCountries = VALUES('Employees'[CountryName]) RETURN     ADDCOLUMNS (         'Skills Data',         "Country", ...
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  • Fowmy's avatar
    Fowmy
    1 year ago

    ManchevB 

    You may try genreating the above table and spliting the column CountriesWithoutSkill into rows using Power Query:

    let
  AllCountries = List.Distinct(Employees[CountryName]),
  Source = #"Skills Data",
  AddCountry = Table.AddColumn(
    Source,
    "Country",
    each
      let
        skill     = [SkillName],
        countries = List.Distinct(Table.SelectRows(Employees, (r) => r[SkillName] = skill)[CountryName])
      in
        Text.Combine(List.Sort(countries), ", ")
  ),
  AddCountriesWithoutSkill = Table.AddColumn(
    AddCountry,
    "CountriesWithoutSkill",
    each
      let
        selected = if [Country] = "" then {} else Text.Split([Country], ", "),
        diff     = List.Difference(AllCountries, selected)
      in
        Text.Combine(List.Sort(diff), ", ")
  ),
  TransformColumn = Table.TransformColumns(AddCountriesWithoutSkill, {{"CountriesWithoutSkill", each Text.Split(_, ", "), type list}}),
  ExpandCountriesWithoutSkill = Table.ExpandListColumn(TransformColumn, "CountriesWithoutSkill")
in
  ExpandCountriesWithoutSkill
speedramps's avatar
speedramps
Icon for Super User rankSuper User
1 year ago

We want to help you but your description is too vague. Please write it again clearly.

Please DON'T copy & paste your DAX that does not work and expect us to fathom what you want to do. That is a bit crazy. ā€Œā€Œ
Also DON'T proudly explain what you have done ok, just explain the problem, Otherwisie it is confusing,


Please DO give a simple non technical functional description of what you want, then let us suggest the solution. Thank you.

Provide example input data as table text (not a screen print) so we can import the data to build a solution for you.

Remove any unneeded columns which may cause confusion.

Rename columns to user friendly names. Avoid your business or system jargon that we may not understand.
 
Also provide the example desired output, with a clear step-by-step description of calculations the process flow.
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Take time and care to use the same table and field names in the input, output and description so we can understand your problem and help you.
Try keep it simple and ask one question per ticket.
You will get a quick response if you put time, care and effort into writing clear problem descriptions with example data.

Look forward to helping you when the above information is forthcoming šŸ‘