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Whoule
Helper I
Helper I

Conditonal Column based on a column from another table

I need to create a formula that compare the start of the value in column YY to the value in column XX from another table called StatusList. Here what I have so far: each if Text.StartsWith([YY], StatusList[XX]) then "Open" else "remove"

 

Issue now is that I receive this error message: Expression.Error: We cannot convert a value of type List to type Text.

 

Attached is a sample of the data.

 

Thank you.

Whoule_0-1708106818050.png

 

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dufoq3
Super User
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Hi @Whoule,

 

replace Source[XX] with your Table[XXColum] reference

 

dufoq3_1-1708111532238.png

 

Result:

dufoq3_0-1708111265711.png

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Ncq7EQAhCADRXoglgONbi0P/bZyiZjtvdk5gks+QmGHchhrNGfhU46pZOLLmZt59mF0TifrufuyCJEdXQtUP", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [YY = _t, XX = _t]),
    Ad_Check = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Check", each if List.Contains(Source[XX], Text.BeforeDelimiter([YY], "-") & "-") then "Open" else "Remove", type text)
in
    Ad_Check

 


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dufoq3
Super User
Super User

Hi @Whoule,

 

replace Source[XX] with your Table[XXColum] reference

 

dufoq3_1-1708111532238.png

 

Result:

dufoq3_0-1708111265711.png

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Ncq7EQAhCADRXoglgONbi0P/bZyiZjtvdk5gks+QmGHchhrNGfhU46pZOLLmZt59mF0TifrufuyCJEdXQtUP", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [YY = _t, XX = _t]),
    Ad_Check = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Check", each if List.Contains(Source[XX], Text.BeforeDelimiter([YY], "-") & "-") then "Open" else "Remove", type text)
in
    Ad_Check

 


Note: Check this link to learn how to use my query.
Check this link if you don't know how to provide sample data.

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