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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Use ALLNOBLANKROW with UNION

I have made a table joining two columns using UNION taking only DISTINCT values. That works fine, but I also need the blanks to be removed. I have tried using ALLNOBLANKROW, but can't seem to make ...
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    AlbertoFerrari
    8 years ago

    ALLNOBLANKROW serves a different purpose, it removes the optional blank row to fix invalid relationships and it has nothing to do with blank removal (I know, the name is somewhat confusing... but it would have been hard to find a better one).

     

    That said, you can remove blanks after the UNION is finished:

     

    Casenumbertable = 
DISTINCT (
    FILTER ( 
        UNION (
            SELECTCOLUMNS ( testcare; "casenumber"; testcare[CaseNumber] );
            SELECTCOLUMNS ( tvs; "casenumber"; tvs[CaseNumber] )
        ),
        NOT ISBLANK ( [CaseNumber] )
    )
)

    This should do the trick.

     

    Have fun with DAX!

    Alberto Ferrari
    http://www.sqlbi.com

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AlbertoFerrari
Most Valuable Professional
8 years ago

ALLNOBLANKROW serves a different purpose, it removes the optional blank row to fix invalid relationships and it has nothing to do with blank removal (I know, the name is somewhat confusing... but it would have been hard to find a better one).

 

That said, you can remove blanks after the UNION is finished:

 

Casenumbertable = 
DISTINCT (
    FILTER ( 
        UNION (
            SELECTCOLUMNS ( testcare; "casenumber"; testcare[CaseNumber] );
            SELECTCOLUMNS ( tvs; "casenumber"; tvs[CaseNumber] )
        ),
        NOT ISBLANK ( [CaseNumber] )
    )
)

This should do the trick.

 

Have fun with DAX!

Alberto Ferrari
http://www.sqlbi.com

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iamafanijaz
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

The Solution works for me whilw using Summarize with union 🙂