create measure based on textcolumn

[cantona7]

Hi all.

How do you in dax create a measure (not interested in creating a calculated column) based on a text column.

I have a table containing ColumnA so whenever ColumnA is blank then for that row I would like it to be marked with 1 and else 0 - something like this:

# ColumnA NewMeasure (NOT calculated column)

1 textABC     0

2                   1

3 textBCD     0 

***

IF(sumx(table,table[ColumnA) = " ",1,0) I know this is not working, but just to show my thoughts

So that I later on can sum on this NewMeasure, and I would not only show rows where NewMeasure = 1 but all rows.

Thanks in advance

[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@cantona7 , check one of the two

sumx(table,if(table[ColumnA] = " ",1,0))

or

if(isblank(sum([ColumnA] )) ,1,0)

[cantona7]

thanks a lot 🙂 this worked:

 sumx(table,if(table[ColumnA] = " ",1,0)) BUT when asking if a string is blank it should be sumx(table,if(table[ColumnA] = "",1,0)) (without spaces between "" ) 

Thanks again