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wneiton
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7 years ago
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concatenate calculated column

Hi   I'd like some help!   I need to concatenate NF + MI + MV and put the result in Criterios Column.  NF,MI,MV are calculated columns.    That's my table.    My goal is to get a conca...
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  • ajohn1's avatar
    ajohn1
    7 years ago

    I got this example from here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/concatenate-function-dax

     

    Criterios = Concatenate(NF, Concatenate(",", Concatenate(MI, Concatenate(",", MV))))

     

    [Edited, I didnt see you already had commas. I also did this with calculated columns from my data. You might need to update your desktop version if this is not working for you.] 

     

    Criterios = Concatenate(NF, Concatenate(MI, MV))

  • wneiton's avatar
    wneiton
    7 years ago

    Hi ajohn1

     

    It worked, I used this expression: 

    Criterios = CONCATENATE(FIXED(SomaTotal[NF];2);CONCATENATE(FIXED(SomaTotal[MI];2);FIXED(SomaTotal[MV];2)))

    however, I don't know why, but I got the dot as a result instead of comma. Look at the picture below. 

     

     

     thanks!

     

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tkporter
Regular Visitor
6 years ago

This is not directly responsive to the question, but I have seen several people seeking a solution to concatenating 3 columns when editing a query (see example when desiring to get a FullName from 3 columns).

 

   LastName, FirstName, MI, for example.

 

I recently found you can get there with a simple measure ...

 

Full Name = MemberName[NameFirst] & ", " & MemberName[NameLast] & ", " & MemberName[NameMiddle]

 

... by selecting 2 or more Table[columnnames] which will appear on your Report Canvas after selecting the "fields you want. Then immediately left click on the table name and instead on selecting a "measure" select "column" and an "equal" sign will appear in the Measure area. Simply use the above syntax after naming your "column" measure (in the above case I used FullName = ). Apologies in advance for dropping this in the wrong place ... any help to get this moved to the right place will be appreciated.