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I am new to Power BI but have used SQL. Both M and DAX are making me feel stupid!! Thanks for letting me vent.
I have a column that groups students into 8 different types. I want to use an if statement or case when statement to bring that down to 4 and put the 4 new labels into a new column. I am pretty sure I need to do with in Power Query. This is what I have so far. What am I doing wrong?
"Trad Fleer Grad", each if [College]='ADULT' then 'Fleer'
else if [College]='GRAD' then 'Graduate'
else if left([College],1)='V' then 'Nondegree'
else 'Traditional')
Also, is there an "in" command, such as
if [College] in ('TRAD','5YTRD','PTTRAD') then 'Traditional'
Solved! Go to Solution.
if List.Contains({"TRAD","5YTRD","PTTRAD"},[College]) then "Traditional"
Hi @Anonymous ,
I understand that in SQL, you should be using ' '.
But in Power Query, it should be " ".
if
[College] = "ADULT"
then "Fleer"
else
if [College] = "GRAD"
then "Graduate"
else
if
Text.Start( [College], 1) = "V"
then "Nondegree"
else
"Traditional"
-----------
if
List.Contains( {"TRAD","5YTRD","PTTRAD"}, [College] )
then "Traditional"
else
YourConditon
Hope this helps
Thank you both. I asked one question and learned a lot: about the spaces, " instead of ', List.Contains, Text.Start, and those { }. I am on a roll.
Hi @Anonymous ,
I understand that in SQL, you should be using ' '.
But in Power Query, it should be " ".
if
[College] = "ADULT"
then "Fleer"
else
if [College] = "GRAD"
then "Graduate"
else
if
Text.Start( [College], 1) = "V"
then "Nondegree"
else
"Traditional"
-----------
if
List.Contains( {"TRAD","5YTRD","PTTRAD"}, [College] )
then "Traditional"
else
YourConditon
Hope this helps
if List.Contains({"TRAD","5YTRD","PTTRAD"},[College]) then "Traditional"
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