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Hi,
I'm trying to create a new column that should be populated with a certain number based on the contents of several other columns.
What I'm looking for is something like this:
If [COUNTRY] equals Kazakhstan AND IF [COMPANY] equals Alltel, then "1"
Else If [COUNTRY] equals Kazakhstan AND IF [COMPANY] equals VIP, then "2"
But i cannot find such a possibility in "Add conditional column". (see picture)
And when I try to use the Advanced Editor, I cannot find any syntax that covers this scenario.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
You need to add some paranthesis as and has higher priority than or.
In your case the formula should be built like (a=x or a=y) and (b = m or b = n) etcetera.
Without paranthesis, a=x or a=y and n=m or b=n is equivalent with a=x or (a=y and b=m) or b=n.
So without parenthesis, you can think of all (groups of) ands evaluated first and the ors being in between (groups of) ands.
Thanks MARCEL! I'll give it a shot in a moment!
So, this is what I have and I get an "error" in the new custom column...
if ([Course Name] = "Managing Information" or "Promoting Positive Workplace Behaviour")
and ([#"Organisation / Portfolio"] = "Bio21 Australia Ltd" or "Bio21 Australia Limited"
or "CAVAL" or "Grattan Institute" or "Kendall Hall" or "Melbourne University Publishing Ltd"
or "Nossal Institute Ltd" or "University House" or "Australian National Academy of Music Ltd"
or "Melbourne Theatre Company" or "MU Student Union Ltd") then "Exclude" else "Include"
This the error:
Have you tried putting the follwing below?
if ([Course Name] = "Managing Information" or [Course Name = "Promoting Positive Workplace Behaviour")
And then repeat for each instance?
What was the response to this.
I have similar situation for a custom column, i need to have values
if col1=a1 and col2 =a2 then '50'
else col1=b1 and col2=b2 then 100
and so on for 20 values
how to resolve this
Hi @Anonymous
You can create a new Custom Column in the Power Query Editor with the following syntax
if [col1] = "a1" and [col2] = "a2" then 50 else if [col1] = "b1" and [col2] = "b2" then 100 else if [col1] = "c1" and [col2] = "c2" then 200 else 999
That worked!! Thanks you guys for helping me out!!
Glad you found a solution!
I have not, I'll give that a shot! Thanks!
Tanks for the assistance, and sorry for my late feedback ...
I've managed to solve this in a completly different way - I added the ID in a data preparation stage, i.e. before the data is fed into Power BI. This is actually a more neat way to manage the IDs, as I need the data to be properly cleansed for other applications as well (i.e. not just in Power BI).
You can just use the regular Add Custom Column button and write out a function for the column. Your example pseudocode is missing the final else, by the way, so I made something up.
if [COUNTRY] = "Kazakhstan" and [COMPANY] = "Alltel" then 1 else if [COUNTRY] = "Kazakhstan" and [COMPANY] = "VIP" then 2 else 0
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