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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Dynamically Reference a Measure within another Measure

Does anyone know if it is possible to reference a measure dynamically within another measure? As an example, you want to bring back a measure if it matches the formatted value of a slicer. For exampl...
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mahoneypat
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6 years ago

I don't think what you are describing is possible in DAX.  For example, if you could have a table of labels and DAX expressions as text, you could use the label column in your slicer and the "measure" would execute the DAX expression for that row.  That doesn't exist as far as I know.

 

Regards,

Pat

 

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justinh
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3 years ago

It would be nice to be able to reference measures within another measure using dynamic text strings.