Categorise item based on a text field (product category) and a number (its weight)

[alexproulx]

Hello,

I tried to find an answer but was not able to find anything.

English is a second language sorry if I'm unclear.

In PowerQuery, I'm trying to automatically categorize products based on their category and net weight.

Here is an example of the final result I'm trying to achieve :

SKU	Niv1	Niv2	Niv3	Net Weight	Size
12	Food	Cat	Dry	2.5	Small
13	Food	Cat	Dry	7	Large
14	Food	Dog	Dry	7	Medium
15	Food	Dog	Dry	15	Large

Cat between 0 and 3 kg, it's a small bag, 3 and 8 it's a large bag.

But in the dog food i.e. 7kg is considered a medium bag.

I'm directly logged in to a material table in SAP via an OData link, but that information is not managed or maintained in SAP.

I initially tried to map every actual available size for each segment but as we create new SKUs, new weights are available so I would rather use a range logic.

Please let me know if there's any more information I can provide.

Thanks for the support

Best!

[v-yingjl]

Hi @alexproulx ,

You can create a column like this:

Size = 
SWITCH (
    [Niv2],
    "Cat",
        SWITCH (
            TRUE (),
            [Net Weight] >= 0
                && [Net Weight] <= 3, "Small",
            [Net Weight] > 3
                && [Net Weight] <= 8, "Large"
        ),
    "Dog",
        SWITCH (
            TRUE (),
            [Net Weight] >= 0
                && [Net Weight] <= 3, "Small",
            [Net Weight] > 3
                && [Net Weight] <= 7, "Medium",
            [Net Weight] > 7, "Large"
        )
)

Attached a sample file in the below, hopes to help you.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
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[camargos88 · Accepted solution]

@alexproulx ,

You can create a table with the parameters and a custom column to calculate it.

let 
_cat = [Niv2],
_weight = [Net Weight]
in
List.First(Table.SelectRows(TB_PARAMETERS, 
each 
[Niv2] = _cat and
[Max] >= _weight)[Label])