text parsing mixed with a lookup value

[aldirb]

I currently have a colum with very long descriptions that I would like to parse by searching for specific text, then return the category it belongs in.

TABLE A:

Line Description

po invoice id 21934i148 taxes on added funds

refrigeration coolant repairs

new refrigerator installation PO

TABLE B:

searchfor	returnvalue
refrig	Refrigeration
tax	Taxes

Obviously i have many more categories, but would only like the return value to be ONE individual category (i.e. if a description were "Refrigerator taxes" i would want the first value to be returned, so in this case "Refrigeration").

Is there a way to do this by referencing a table such as Table B?

Currently my formula is very long and manual to update and looks like this:

Parse =

IF(

SEARCH("refrig",'2020 GLAP'[Line Description],,0) > 0, "Refrigeration",

IF(SEARCH("plumb",'2020 GLAP'[Line Description],,0) > 0, "Plumbing", "OTHER"))

However, in the SEARCH formula, i can't reference a separate table otherwise it errors. Does anyone have any tips on this?

[v-yiruan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @aldirb ,

You can create one measure as below:

ReturnNValue =

CALCULATE (

    MAX ( 'Search'[returnvalue] ),

    FILTER (

        'Search',

        FIND ( 'Search'[searchfor], MAX ( '2020 GLAP'[Line Description] ), 1, 0 ) > 0

    )

)

Best Regards

Rena

[amitchandak]

Try a new column in table 1

New column in Table 1 = minx(filter(table2,search(Table2[searchfor],Table1[Line Description],1,0)>0),Table2[returnvalue])

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