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Hi All,
I am working on managing my data in power query and have run into an issue i can not solve. I am working on client info from Open Air and have created a new column called "Unique ID" using the concatenate function combining project name and number. From here i have right clicked on my "project number" column and "replaced values" so that the null items in my column will be replaced with "999999" to follow the 6 digit format. We originally thought all of the values contained 6 digits and have come to find some are 4 and 5 digit numbers. From there noticing formating issues with the formula working for 99% of the project names but the other 1% being dashes in the wrong places due to human error in Open Air. Wondering if there is a DAX formula to fix these two formatting issues?
Hi @Anonymous ,
You can do it in Power Query as well, let's say you have this table:
So just go to Add Column / Custom Column and use Text.PadStart function:
Text.PadStart(Text.From([Project Number]),6,"0") & [Project Name]
You will get an Unique ID like this:
So as you can see it doesn't matter if the project number has < 6 digits, it will complete it with "0" or any character you decide.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Gian Carlo Poggi