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TaufikMaggangka
Helper II
Helper II

Retrive text from other column in direct query

Hi everyone,

 

I need help about dax in directquery mode. 

 

Basicly, I want to retrive value from this column covidSymptoms to new column, as follow:

CovidSymptoms

fever lossofsmell cough

cough fever

lossofsmell cough

fever lossofsmell

 

I want to give space and separator,  and I hope the new column or costum table should be like this:

CovidSymptoms

fever, loss of smell, cough

cough, fever

lossofsmell, cough

fever, loss of smell

 

Stress about this, I try a lot of different ways such as using text.combines, text.contains with if statement but doesnt work in directquery mode.  Your prompt response will be appriciated.

 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@TaufikMaggangka , You might able to get complex logic work at the column level, You have to create a measure. You can use search or find or containsstring

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Hi @v-yalanwu-msft , 
Thank you so much. This is give me a clue.
but I have another issues since I also want replace value of "fever" to "Fever", cough to "Cough"(basically I want to first alfabet is Capital) not only loss of smell will be replace.

I try  your sollustion, like this, but doesnt work. your future help will be appriciated.

Measure = var _replace=SUBSTITUTE(MAX([CovidSymptoms])," ",",")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"lossofsmel","loss of smel")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"fever","Fever")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"cough","Cough")

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Hi, @TaufikMaggangka ;

You could change measure as follows:

Measure = var _a=SUBSTITUTE(MAX([CovidSymptoms])," ",",")
var _b=SUBSTITUTE(_a,"lossofsmel","loss of smel")
var _c=SUBSTITUTE(_b,"fever","Fever")
return SUBSTITUTE(_c,"cough","Cough")

vyalanwumsft_0-1626235878806.png

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
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aj1973
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @TaufikMaggangka 

It is good to know that there is some limitations in using DQ Mode.

aj1973_0-1626228666430.png

Your model might fall into one of them...

Maybe a Measure with DAX can do the work to see it into a visual, but I don't think that adding a Calculated column is possible.

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v-yalanwu-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @TaufikMaggangka ;

If you want to achieve it in power query ,you could Right click and use Replace Values, such as:

vyalanwumsft_2-1626085223250.pngvyalanwumsft_1-1626085206689.png

vyalanwumsft_3-1626085251998.png

The final output is shown below:

vyalanwumsft_4-1626085269007.png

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you for trying to help, but this is not working in "Direct Query mode"

Hi, @TaufikMaggangka ;

If your .pbix is  "Direct Query mode" , you should use dax (create a measure )as follows:

Measure = var _replace=SUBSTITUTE(MAX([CovidSymptoms])," ",",")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"lossofsmel","loss of smel")

he final output is shown below:

vyalanwumsft_0-1626227661514.png

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi @v-yalanwu-msft , 
Thank you so much. This is give me a clue.
but I have another issues since I also want replace value of "fever" to "Fever", cough to "Cough"(basically I want to first alfabet is Capital) not only loss of smell will be replace.

I try  your sollustion, like this, but doesnt work. your future help will be appriciated.

Measure = var _replace=SUBSTITUTE(MAX([CovidSymptoms])," ",",")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"lossofsmel","loss of smel")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"fever","Fever")
return SUBSTITUTE(_replace,"cough","Cough")

Hi, @TaufikMaggangka ;

You could change measure as follows:

Measure = var _a=SUBSTITUTE(MAX([CovidSymptoms])," ",",")
var _b=SUBSTITUTE(_a,"lossofsmel","loss of smel")
var _c=SUBSTITUTE(_b,"fever","Fever")
return SUBSTITUTE(_c,"cough","Cough")

vyalanwumsft_0-1626235878806.png

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you so much. this is a sollution.

TaufikMaggangka
Helper II
Helper II

  • Thanks @amitchandak  For your clue. Would you like to give me an exampel measure based on my table above.  I try to create measure but not working since this also need to combine the the texts. 
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@TaufikMaggangka , You might able to get complex logic work at the column level, You have to create a measure. You can use search or find or containsstring

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