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Anonymous
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List.Distinct and List.Contains

Hello all,

 

I am attempting to filter a table (Table 1) based on values which are found in another table (Which has only unique values: Table2).

 

Table 1:

Episode #     Week#

Episode 1         5

Episode 2         5

Episode 3         6

 

Table 2:

WeeksToDate
5

 

Currently the source of Table 2 is manual (i.e. Entered via the " Enter Data" function on the PowerBi Query Editor) and I am using the following function on Table 1 to filter it.

=Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each ( List.Contains( #"Table 2" [WeeksToDate], [Week#])))

 

This works great and I have no issues.

 

However, I would like to use the following function (or something similar) to get the week# dynamically (rather than entering manually each week) knowing that Table3[WeeksAired] will always have all the weeks I am interested in - in this case it would not have week 6 :

 

= List.Distinct(#"Table 3"[WeeksAired])

 

Table3:

WeeksAired

5

5

5

5

 

The above function gets the me the value I am intersted in without any issues and I get a table that is seemingly identical to Table2. My issue begins when I replace the reference of Table2 to Table 3 as the filter seems to never end. The process which will normally take ~10-15 seconds now seems to turn forever ( I have yet to see it finish). I was wondering what modificatiosn I could make to have both the dynamic updates as well as the"quick" filtering.

 

 

Note: Apologies if I missed any info/proper etiquette for posting in forums as this is my first post ever

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi@Anonymous 

 

Try with List.Buffer

 

Following steps after "Added Custom" step

 

#"Added Custom" = ..............................................
mylist=List.Buffer(List.Distinct(#"Table 3" [WeeksAired])),
Custom1 = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each List.Contains( mylist, [#"Week#"]))
in
Custom1


Regards
Zubair

Please try my custom visuals

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi@Anonymous 

 

Try with List.Buffer

 

Following steps after "Added Custom" step

 

#"Added Custom" = ..............................................
mylist=List.Buffer(List.Distinct(#"Table 3" [WeeksAired])),
Custom1 = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each List.Contains( mylist, [#"Week#"]))
in
Custom1


Regards
Zubair

Please try my custom visuals
Anonymous
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Fantastic! Thank you!

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