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ronaldt5
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4 years ago
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SELECTEDVALE Alternative

Please help with an alternative to SELECTEDVALUE since this is not supported in excel power query. Here is a sample of what I was trying to do.   Budget Selected Period = var selectedperiod = ...
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    tamerj1
    4 years ago

    ronaldt5 

    Please use

    Budget Selected Period =
VAR selectedperiod =
    IF (
        HASONEVALUE ( SelectPeriod[Select Period] ),
        VALUES ( SelectPeriod[Select Period] )
    )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        selectedperiod = "Current Month", [Budget CM],
        selectedperiod = "Quarter To Date", [Budget QTD],
        selectedperiod = "Year to Date", [Budget YTD]
    )
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tamerj1
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4 years ago

ronaldt5 

Please use

Budget Selected Period =
VAR selectedperiod =
    IF (
        HASONEVALUE ( SelectPeriod[Select Period] ),
        VALUES ( SelectPeriod[Select Period] )
    )
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        TRUE (),
        selectedperiod = "Current Month", [Budget CM],
        selectedperiod = "Quarter To Date", [Budget QTD],
        selectedperiod = "Year to Date", [Budget YTD]
    )