I am often working on datasets where there is more than one condition for a conditional column.

And whilst the GUI based Conditional column is really good, it currently does not have the capability for multiple conditions.

In this blog post below, I will demonstrate how to achieve this.

In my example below, I have a table that has got Bike Brands and Types.

I now want to create a rating based on both the Brand and Type.

I do this by creating a Custom Column

The way the multiple conditions work is based on the following pattern:

if [Column Name1] = “Condition” and [Column Name 2] = “Condition” then “Result”

else if [Column Name1] = “Condition2” and [Column Name 2] = “Condition2” then “Result2”

else if [Column Name1] = “Condition3” and [Column Name 2] = “Condition3” then “Result3”

else “Unknown Result”

This is shown with my working example below.

Which results in my table now having a new column called Rating which has the multiple conditions for my conditional column.

Another thing to note is that I could also do a range between two values which is essentially multiple conditions for a conditional column.

What I had to first do was to change the Amount column from Text to Whole Number, so that my conditions would work. After which I then used the following conditions

Which resulted in getting the banding that I was after.

And finally, (the last one I promise!), is where I can use the flexibility within Power Query to convert the Amount value on the fly from a Text value to a Number value for my conditional column.

This will allow me to keep my column in my table as a text value.

Conclusion

I hope that you have found this blog post useful and as always if you have any suggestions or comments please leave them in the section below.

Thanks for reading!