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Pass containsstring function to a calculated column

I have a column that contains lines of text with separators, what i am trying to achieve is to list down how many times a text appears in this columns. I know this could be done by containsstring function, but the problem is i want the search criteria to be dynamic. I mean i will input the search through a slicer and then the calculated column should search in the target column as provide output as TRUE or FALSE. I have tried using the SELECTEDVALUE function aswell but its not working below is the forula i am using

Example: "Sold to Partner ID" is what I am searching in Warnings Description column

Column = CONTAINSSTRING('Data War'[Warnings Description],"Sold to Partner ID")
 
This is what i tried, as I have a slicer that contains "Sold to Partner ID"
 
Column = CONTAINSSTRING('Data War'[Warnings Description],SELECTEDVALUE(Category[Warning Category]))
 
 
 
 
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v-gizhi-msft
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Community Support

Hi,

 

I think you can not dynamically show the expected result by selecting slicer by creating calculated columns.

Please try to create a measure like this:

Measure =
CONTAINSSTRING ( MAX ( 'Table'[ID] ), SELECTEDVALUE ( 'SlicerTable'[ID] ) )

Hope this helps.

 

Best Regards,

Giotto

parry2k
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous any reason why you are adding this a column, try measure.

Column = CONTAINSSTRING(MAX('Data War'[Warnings Description]),SELECTEDVALUE(Category[Warning Category]))


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