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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.
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Hi @Whoule,
replace Source[XX] with your Table[XXColum] reference
Result:
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
Hi @Whoule,
replace Source[XX] with your Table[XXColum] reference
Result:
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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