Join us at FabCon Atlanta from March 16 - 20, 2026, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.
Register now!Vote for your favorite vizzies from the Power BI Dataviz World Championship submissions. Vote now!
I am trying to do a simple if statement while adding a new column in PowerBi. The two columns I am using are both in the same format (whole number). What I am trying to do is if colum "Proc 2" = null then return the value from column "Proc" else return the value from column "Proc 2", I have tried 2 differnt ways and I always get an error.
1st attempt -
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if([Proc 2]="" then [PROC] else [Proc 2]))
2nd attempt -
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if([Proc 2]>0 then [Proc 2] else [PROC]))
Both are showing this error
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @Anonymous - you have an uncessary bracket in the if statement and the term null should be use instead of the text string "" for numbers.
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if [Proc 2] = null then [PROC] else [Proc 2] , Int64.Type)
Note use this if you need to consider zeros
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if [Proc 2] = null or [Proc 2] = 0 then [PROC] else [Proc 2] , Int64.Type)
Hi @Anonymous - you have an uncessary bracket in the if statement and the term null should be use instead of the text string "" for numbers.
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if [Proc 2] = null then [PROC] else [Proc 2] , Int64.Type)
Note use this if you need to consider zeros
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Final Proc", each if [Proc 2] = null or [Proc 2] = 0 then [PROC] else [Proc 2] , Int64.Type)
Vote for your favorite vizzies from the Power BI World Championship submissions!
If you love stickers, then you will definitely want to check out our Community Sticker Challenge!
Check out the January 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 11 | |
| 10 | |
| 6 | |
| 6 | |
| 5 |