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sfcmartint1985
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Conditional Column

Hi everyone,

 

Our team is working with Power BI to analyze unstructured data (hot line complaints) and in an effor to trend the data we are using a conditional column to search for key terms within each complaint in an effort to categorize the complaint. Example: Key terms, community, care, town, doctor all result in a conditional column result of 'Community'.  Mostly it works great but is there a way to add multiple key words to the search value?  We have tried separating with a comma, space, etc, but do not get the correct results. Below is a snip of me trying to add mulitple terms which fails. 

sfcmartint1985_0-1690545555007.png

 

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mukeshkasi25
Frequent Visitor

Hi @sfcmartint1985  ,

Here is the screenshot of my workings;
Here I am going to an custom column based on country,
for eg, if the country is UK,Belgium then Europe and
if the country is Spain,Netherlands then WesternEurope

mukeshkasi25_0-1690895326254.png

 



Go to PowerQuery->Add Column(task basr)->CutomColumn

Use this in the custom query formula:
= if List.ContainsAny({[Country]},{"UK","Belgium"}) then "Europe" else

if List.ContainsAny({[Country]}, {"Spain", "Netherlands"}) then "WesterernEurope" else "Other")

 

mukeshkasi25_1-1690895326260.png

 

 

Here is the result:

mukeshkasi25_2-1690895326268.png

 

Vijay_A_Verma
Super User
Super User

Insert a conditional column and put following formula

Change Text to your column name

"a", "b"....to your list of values which you are trying to find

if List.ContainsAny({[Text]}, {"a", "b"}, (x,y)=>Text.Contains(x,y)) then "TomTest" else null

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