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Anonymous
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Detect Non-consecutive values in a column

I Have a simple table with one column

S. No.

1

2

3

4

5

7

8

9

 

I want to be able to detect missing values in this column (e.g. in this case 6).

 

Is this possible? Thanks! @amitchandak 

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mahoneypat
Employee
Employee

You can create a virtual table of numbers with GENERATESERIES and then check for missing ones with the EXCEPT function (and then display the table of missing values with CONCATENATEX.  Replace Number[Value] with your actual table/column name.

 

Missing Numbers =
VAR numbersincolumn =
    DISTINCT ( Numbers[Value] )
VAR fulllistofnumbers =
    GENERATESERIES ( 191 )
VAR missingnumbers =
    EXCEPT ( fulllistofnumbersnumbersincolumn )
RETURN
    CONCATENATEX ( missingnumbers, [Value], "," )

 

Pat

 





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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Actually I'm a little confused about your expected output.

In case you want to add the Full number as a column and then combine the original missing column as a new table, you could try this:

 

1. Create a new table:

New table = GENERATESERIES ( MIN('Table'[S.No.]), MAX('Table'[S.No.]), 1 )

2.Use LOOKUPVALUE() to get the matched original column:

original column = LOOKUPVALUE('Table'[S.No.],'Table'[S.No.],[Value])

 

The final output is shown below:

Full and original columns.PNG

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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mahoneypat
Employee
Employee

You can create a virtual table of numbers with GENERATESERIES and then check for missing ones with the EXCEPT function (and then display the table of missing values with CONCATENATEX.  Replace Number[Value] with your actual table/column name.

 

Missing Numbers =
VAR numbersincolumn =
    DISTINCT ( Numbers[Value] )
VAR fulllistofnumbers =
    GENERATESERIES ( 191 )
VAR missingnumbers =
    EXCEPT ( fulllistofnumbersnumbersincolumn )
RETURN
    CONCATENATEX ( missingnumbers, [Value], "," )

 

Pat

 





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@mahoneypa HoosierBI on YouTube


Anonymous
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That works. Thanks! Is there a way to re-route the output to individual values in a new table's column? 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Actually I'm a little confused about your expected output.

In case you want to add the Full number as a column and then combine the original missing column as a new table, you could try this:

 

1. Create a new table:

New table = GENERATESERIES ( MIN('Table'[S.No.]), MAX('Table'[S.No.]), 1 )

2.Use LOOKUPVALUE() to get the matched original column:

original column = LOOKUPVALUE('Table'[S.No.],'Table'[S.No.],[Value])

 

The final output is shown below:

Full and original columns.PNG

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Anonymous
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Great Thanks!

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Could you please Accept my post as the solution as well if it could help you a little?

Thanks in advance!😀

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin

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