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Anonymous
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Filtering Long Table Based on Another Table

 

Hi Guys, how is everything?

I need some help here please. I need to filter a column in a table, long one actually (the first image is a sample of it), to keep only the mentioned names in a column in another table (the second image), to reach the outcome illustrated in the final image (the third image), how could I do that?

 

I think this is reachable thru the "List" concept but I am not pretty sure about the needed script to write, could you help please?

 

 

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Magdoulin_1-1631641664733.png

 

Magdoulin_2-1631641719037.png

 

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Anonymous
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On your first table, in the formula bar, type:

 

= Table.SelectRows(Source, each List.Contains(List.Distinct(Table2[Name]), [Name]))

 

--Nate

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Anonymous
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On your first table, in the formula bar, type:

 

= Table.SelectRows(Source, each List.Contains(List.Distinct(Table2[Name]), [Name]))

 

--Nate

Anonymous
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I'm sorry for the bothering again.

 

I've tried to play with the given script a bit and I've applied this:

 

= Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each List.Contains(List.Distinct(#"Removed Other Columns2"), [Agent]))

 

Simply, I'm trying to filter a query table using the same query table at different step, isn't this techinically allowed logically speaking? Yet, I'm getting this error:

 

Expression.Error: We cannot convert a value of type Table to type List.
Details:
Value=[Table]
Type=[Type]

Anonymous
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That was quick, thanks a million

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