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ll1100000
8 - Asteroid

I have a column called "Metrics" , how can I rename the contents in this column?

 

Metrics
Adjusted Sales $
Adjusted Sales %

 

Adjusted Sales $ = Sales $

Adjusted Sales % = Sales %

 

I think use formula function is ok, but I keep getting error messages...

Also, somehow when I try to filter the columns for "adjusted Sales $" by using formula function, it doesn't work at all.

I believe it is some space between $ and % as I have this message in the data "This cell has trailing spaces"....

So I decided to use Contains([Metrics],"Adjusted Sales") and it works perfectly. 

 

So I can I make the formula to say 

if metrics contains "Adjusted Sales $", then Sales$", else "Sales%"

 

Thank you. 

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@ll1100000

 

I used the formula of:

 

IF 
	[Metrics] = 'Adjusted Sales $'	THEN	'Sales $'	ELSEIF
	[Metrics] = 'Adjusted Sales %'	THEN	'Sales %'
ELSE
	[Metrics]
ENDIF

I chose this formula because it is fairly straight-forward and easy to explain.  With space concerns, you might include: Trim([Metrics]) to the formula to get rid of all leading/trailing spaces.

 

Cheers,

Mark

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jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

@MarqueeCrew posted the simple answer.

 

If you are happy with RegEx, I would probably use:

REGEX_Replace([Metrics], "\s*Adjusted (Sales [%|$])\s*", "$1")

which will cope with leading trailing spaces

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